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How to exclude users from view access?

We have a SharePoint 2007 site that is viewable by "All Authenticated Users". As part of company policy, when an employee is terminated or leaves, we modify their active directory account to remain ...
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Hide Manager Permissions of Parent

In Document library, when clicking on Actions, users have "Manage Permissions of Parent" and "Edit Permissions". Is there a way to hide the 'Manage Permissions of Parent', as users are accidentally ...
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How to show what level of permission a group or user has to a site?

In SharePoint 2007 when you go to a site and view advanced permissions (Site Actions - Site Settings - Modify All Site Settings - Advanced Permissions) you are presented with a page that has a table ...
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Capture SharePoint role group and group members?

For our audit process I need to regularly capture all of our SharePoint role groups (for our main site collection) and the members in each group. Is there a reliable way to approach this problem?
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Are SharePoint 2007 or 2010 vulnerable to cross-site request forgery out of the box?

An IBM Rational AppScan against a WSS 3.0 installation indicates that it has detected a cross-site request forgery (CSRF/XSRF) vulnerabilities on many pages, for example ...
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Maintaining role groups and users in two farms simultaneously?

We currently have two farms - a SharePoint 2007 one and a SharePoint 2010 one. We have the same groups in both farms and the same userbase. At the moment when someone joins or leaves the company ...
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SpServices Cannot Get Sub-Sites without Being Site Collection Admin

I am building a web part which is delegated by permissions. It is displayling members of the Members group and Owners group onto the page, and if a user does not have Members or Owners permissions, ...
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Access Denied for SPUserCollection.remove()

Works for administrator but not working for a normal user. I even tried it with "SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate() {});" after breaking RoleInheritance, and even tried ...
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RunWithElevatedPrivileges doesn't work in Webpart Constructor

With Sharepoint 2007 I am using RunWithElevatedPrivileges to write to the Event Log, but if I place the call inside the Webpart constructor, I get a "Request Failed" message. However, if I put this ...
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Make a folder in a document library read only without using security

I have a document library with about 25,000 folders in it, each folder represents a task in our task system and is used as a document repository for those tasks. Of the 25,000 tasks about 22,000 are ...
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Users denied access to certain site collection until an administrator opens it

We are having a problem with users getting "Access denied" errors when trying to access a certain site collection. These users all have the proper permissions to the site and have accessed it in the ...
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Editing navigation from site Actions results in error in MOSS 2007

When I or any other user on any machine tries to change the navigation through Site Actions - Modify Navigation, an error occurs stating "The security validation for this page is invalid. Click ...
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How to display library permissions to members?

Working on a SP2007 implementation that has a large number of document libraries with custom permissions set, and they have a requirement to give better visibility of who has access to each library. ...
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User Accounts Disappearing From SP Groups

We've been running into a bizarre scenario and I'm at a complete loss. I'm a site collection admin for my division's portal. We're on a shared internal company-wide MOSS server, and I have no access ...
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Sharepoint Security Trim control & its permission

We have a Custom List in SharePoint 2007, all authenticated users are allowed to add a new item into it. Now, we have a page on which we are displaying the item details and it will be accessible for ...
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Access Denied on Web Part

I followed this article to display sub-sites on site collection's home page. I works fine when user have contribute access. But user with read or view only gets Access Denied. What are my options so I ...
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Programatically adding SharePoint groups to Group Quicklaunch

I'm programatically creating a new site with associated groups (Owners, Members etc) in MOSS 2007 When the site is created, and groups associated with the site, the groups don't appear in the Groups ...
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Allow users to view items in Document Library, but not open the files

I have the requirement to allow users to view the content of a document library, including browsing through folders, but not actually open the individual files. There doesn't appear to be a ...
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What is the difference between SPContext.Current.Web and SPContext.Current.Site.OpenWeb()?

My colleague found that some scenarios of working with SPWeb objects depend on how you obtain them. I'm not talking of impersonating with UserTokens - that another story. But at times when you write ...
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Can you detect permissions on a list via Ajax or SharePoint web services?

The context for this is the SPServices or Imtech (SP)LookupAddNew function that let you add new items to lookups without navigating to the target list. Can we avoid adding the link for users without ...
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Securing a forms Authentication Internet site

I have an internet site using MOSS 2007/win 2008/SQL 2005. Users are authenticated using forms authentication. All authenticated users are able to browse pages like: ...
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ASP.Net Forms authentication issue

I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I have deployed a collaboration portal template based SharePoint site collection. I am developing using ASP.Net web ...
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Reason for FormDigestSettings.Enabled?

I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I have deployed a publishing portal. I am developing a ASP.Net web application using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5 + ...