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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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Is there a way to list all content deployment jobs on aspx page?

Is there any way to get all local contentdeployment jobs from within web application code? I'm trying to list all jobs on an aspx page in the backend of a site collection, but everytime I execute ...
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Sharepoint manage trust/add certificate

Hi I try to add a certificate under "central administration>security>manage trust" but I alwas get following error. The Root Certificate that was just selected is invalid. This may be ...
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How to Password Protect a SharePoint Object (Reassuring High Level Users That its secure)

Edit to clarify: The purpose of this isn't to replace SharePoint security or to add some extra super security or about trust in SharePoint, it is instead to consider something that is very much ...
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“DWORD (32-bit) Value” or “”Qword (32-bit) Value" - which one should I configure in Windows 64-bit registry?

"DisableLoopbackCheck & SharePoint: What every admin and developer should know" advises to disable ("infamous") "loopback check" completely on dev machine by following "You receive error 401.1 ...
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Windows Authentication inside custom WebPart

I have created a custom web part that let's the user sign in using their windows accounts. However, the I get Object Not Set to the Reference error when I set the SetPrincipalAndWriteSessionToken. ...
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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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Deny user access from SharePoint Native but allow it from custom application

How can i restrict a user from entering SharePoint - unless he is using my custom application? For example, a user tries to open http://Mysite , he gets an access denied error. But as the same time, ...
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Security Exception - Trying to load MySite Blog

When I try to run this async query it fails: private void SomeFunction() { Thread thread = new Thread(GetBlogInfo); thread.Start(); } private void GetBlogInfo() { ...
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How to remove a permission to a SPPrincipal on a Item (programmatically)

I'm trying to work with privileges on elements of a list. I want the item to mantain the same privileges for all SPPrincipal I don't modify. This is the code public static void ...
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Security Issue for a user group in SharePoint 2010

For a SharePoint group 'A', I made the security to Read only. Now my requirement is that, I have created a custom webpart, with one text box and a button, Where the users from 'A' group was supposed ...
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Change List Item Permission via Web Services?

Using web services, is there a way to assign a list item different security than the rest of the list? Lets say I have 3 rows in the list and 2 different groups. 1. A ; Group A & B can see ...
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Silverlight application privileges

I have a silverlight application which uses the client object model to access the sharepoint server. When i run the app "out-of-browser" with elevated trust everything works great, but when i try it ...
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How do I remove all users from an SPGroup object?

I have an SPGroup object populated, how can I remove all members from the group, so that essentially I start with a fresh group. I can't delete and recreate it, so I need a way to work with the ...
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Securing usernames and passwords for external SQL DB

We want to ensure that we are following best practice around connecting to a custom database. I'm not a developer as such so thought I would ask SharePoint Overflow :-). We have several SharePoint ...
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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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ClientContext security won't work with claims-based SP2010 security enabled

I want to connect to SP2010 server with claims based authorization via client context. But I have security issue. First I didn't managed to connect with default credentials. Then I wrote: ...
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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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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 + ...
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Sharepoint SPWeb rename - Exception SPException - The security validation for this page is invalid

When attempting an SPWeb rename I receive the following SPException: Exception SPException - The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and ...