Security is the protection of information and property from theft.
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Is there a way to restrict or limit the Manage Permissions permission level?
Scenario:
A custom permission level is created that doesn't have as many rights as the Site Owner role (Full Control permission) but, has more rights than a normal Contributor role (Contribute ...
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Use Managed Account in WebService to provision a SiteCollection
A GPO forces us to change all user passwords every 90 days - thats why we are using Managed Accounts with automatic password change in our environment for all services. Because of this we do not know ...
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Best Practices to make my internet facing portal secure
Ok,
so I finished developing my internet site.
It uses a federation provider to authenticate public user.
Now what I'm concern of, is the site security.
I see that any logged in user can see the ...
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I need a Antivirus Scanner for SharePoint 2013
I'm using a Windows 2012 server. With SharePoint server 2013 installed.
When I wanted to install Forefront for SharePoint 2010 I get this error.
No protectable server applications were detected. ...
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Is there a way to limit viewing permissions of list items based on a property?
I have a custom list which has a property "Department" which is a multi-select checkbox list. So each item in this list can be one of multiple different Departments. I would like to make these items ...
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Steps to deny anonymous access to _vti_pvt directory iis7
The service.cnf file found in the _vti_pvt directory has the default permission settings which may lead to an unauthorized access to the file
What are the steps to deny anonymous access to _vti_pvt ...
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Conditional SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges
Is there a way to use SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges conditionally.
For example, assume that i have a code block, if some condition is met i want to run this code block in ...
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My Site creation failure for user after moving My Sites to dedicated web application
I have created a new web application at port 8080 with the intention of having all personal site creation (i.e. My Sites) stored in a dedicated WSS_Content database (i.e. a best practice ...
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Opening document from Search results - This action couldn't be performed because Office doesn't recognize the command it was given
Hi I am trying to open an Office document by clicking on the search results document title, however an error box pops up saying:
This action couldn't be performed because Office doesn't recognize the ...
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SP2010, are the search index / query component files a risk for highly secure documentation?
Say I have some secure documentation held in SharePoint.
Now say the SQL database/BLOB location is encrypted.
Enterprise Search is used to crawl this content and therefore the content is indexed. Is ...
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Multiple login prompts are driving users nuts
What are the typical causes of multiple login prompts on sharepoint sites?
We have a production site where users who login outside of the domain (from home) are prompted multiple times (3 or so ...
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Accessing word docs on Sharepoint site. Are files cached locally?
My client wants users to access word and excel docs through the company SharePoint site from remote locations, however he does not want them to have access to the files after they have logged off the ...
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Full Control Permission Problem
I am in a group which has Full Permission (site collection owners).
However i cant add users to groups that i am not a member off.
I thought this would give me full overriding permissions.
Am i ...
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How can I add “All Authenticated users” (FBA) to a SharePoint Group using Powershell?
I have an FBA site and I need to add "all authenticated users" to a group using PowerShell.
How can I do that?
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Unable to evaluate expression because the code is optimized or a native frame is on top of the call stack
this code thow an exception at "Item.Update();"
private void AddEmail()
{
site = SPContext.Current.Site;
web = site.RootWeb;
...
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Get Access to List View webpart without having access to list
So I'm developing an event management system at the moment where there are two user groups, "editors" and "attendees". By registering for an event, the SPUser is added to a list "attendeeList" which ...
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Problems installing Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint
I can't istall the virusscanner:
I will get this message
No protectable server applications were detected. Client-only installation is not currently supported.
For examples of server applications ...
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users with Contribute getting 403 forbidden error
This is something I haven't seen in 4 years. Users in SP Group "Accounting" with Contribute access getting 403b forbidden error. It was working fine until this morning. However, I log in as sp admin ...
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authentication between host-named site collection, https and http
Here's my situation and I'm wondering what the best way to solve it is.
I have two domains and I'm trying to pass credentials between them. Maybe it's not possible, but here goes......
Domain One
...
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SPUtility.GetPrincipalsInGroup not working when claims authentication is enabled
Method SPUtility.GetPrincipalsInGroup can be used to resolve users that belongs to a AD Group. However, when claims authentication is enabled, this method doesn't work as expected. Is there another ...
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Why is AddComment on SocialCommentManager throwing SPException?
When I try to add a comment using SocialCommentManager, the AddComment method throws an SPException saying
"The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, ...
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SharePoint 2013 S2S Configuration with Exchange
I am trying to configure Site Mailboxes and eDiscovery between SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013. The guidance on both of these is pretty much the same, create a server to server trust, then grant ...
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How can i activate the 'recurrence' section under list information management policy
I can set the policy settings by going to the list settings. But, when i go to 'List Based Retention Schedule' and click 'set a retention stage' the 'recurrence' section is greyed out. Please let me ...
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Security For Custom Application Pages
When managing security for any control on a page we use SPSecurityTrimmedControl. But what to do when defining permissions for a custom application page? How do we restrict unauthorized people to ...
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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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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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How to deny a group to a subsite
I'm using SharePoint 2013
I would to grant acces to a subsite by a specific Active Directory group.
And i want to deny all other groups.
So the group that's allowed is able to acces the subsite and ...
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Note board Web Part Security Permissions
I have a note board web part sitting on the default.aspx page of a site. I have both farm and site admin rights over the site and against each comment I can see a delete link - both for my own posts ...
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Sharepoint output list of users
I would like to output the users of a group, for 40 groups, or for every group within the SharePoint Portal. I would like to do this programatically through powershell or a command line tool for the ...
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113 views
How to remove sharepoint security group in the feature?
I want to remove custom security group from sharepoint 2010. I created custom security group as follows:
SPGroup wcmGroup = currentWeb.SiteGroups[permissionName];
SPRoleDefinition ...
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SP 2010: Detect authentication mode
SharePoint 2010 with Claims-based Windows authentication returns 'Forms' from the Authentication.asmx Mode() call. Is this right? Asking this because actually this SharePoint will require Windows auth ...
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Sharepoint: Retrieve info on assigned user policy
A question from stackoverflow
Case:
Create a User Policy in SharePoint 2010 Web Application Management: assign 'Full read' to user XXX for site YYY;
Call SiteData.asmx/GetContent for site YYY and ...
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Unable to login to site even though I am administrator of the site collection
I created one site collection and gave the site collection administrator as my name. But when I navigate to that site and try to login that site it is giving me an error that Access Denied. For all ...
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Only give permission to modify/delete a list item to the user that created it
I have created a simple Hyperlink list on which everyone can create, edit and delete items.
Now I need to add some more restrictive permissions similar to the following:
Only the users that created ...
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Is it possible to create a Blacklist in the usermanagement?
We use a Sharepoint 2010.
We want to prevent the Site Administrators assign a specific role (e.g. "Domain\All Users") to a site.
So is it possible to create (maybe with custom code), a blacklist for ...
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Is use of PageView web part poses a security risk?
I have two internal web applications in same domain, I want to integrate them within sharepoint using a PageView webpart. Some how the security community of the organization believes it would ...
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sharepoint 2010 hide admin pages
I have several lists on a public facing sharepoint site that are open to the public. These are simple lookup lists and this configuration can't change (not my call).
Since users have access to the ...
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SpSecutityTrimmedControl runs in Pagepreview mode - ?pagepreview=true
I'm branding the sharepoint ribbon and need some changes (css) when the page gets in pagepreview mode.
I've got this code
<SharePoint:SpSecutirtyTrimmedControl runat="server" ...
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Active Directory Federation Services and SharePoint
Here is my situation; we are developing a sharepoint portal that should be accessed from multiple different domains. And users from different domains should not enter their credentials. As far as i ...
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Sharepoint Search showing result that user doesnt have access
We Have Sharepoing 2010 Farm server, when user do a search they also get the result of documents that they don't have access.
Is this a known problem in sharepoint?
Can somebody help me fix it?
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Proper way to get all lists of a certain type from an entire site collection regardless of current location
I'm creating a webpart that gives the user a feed of any annoucement list in the entire site collection, so they can aggregate data to a central portal.
I'm currently using the following, but can't ...
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Webapp design for internet, intranet and extranet?
I am a beginner in Sharepoint and I must conceive a Sharepoint solution. I need to have an Intranet for employees as well as an access point for collaborators to a particular site in this intranet. ...
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Can't open sharepoint designer 2010 when using Basic authentication over a non-SSL connection
I have a sharepoint site and we have to have basic authentication set for users to have access.
But now when i go to open up a site in SP 2010 to do some work i get the error and get transferred to ...
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tool for script for security auditng
Is there a free tool or script that i can use to return security information across a site collection. Ideally i would like something that shows the user / group name and the url of the site / list ...
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DVWP - Across Multiple Lists with Distinct Permissions
I'm attempting to create a DVWP that merges 4 lists that share a content type schema but have distinct permissions. The issue I am having is that if a user does not have permissions to one of the ...
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SharePoint 2010 Access Service Account not automatically added to content DB
We've configured Access Services for SharePoint 2010. When we go to use it with a contact site template, the site installs and loads, but we get a red X "An Error has occrurred".
When I look on the ...
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Encrypting the search index(es) - any advice?
I have read up on how to configure SQL Server TDE to encrypt SharePoint content that resides in databases, but what about encrypting the search indexes (which reside on the file system)?
Does anyone ...
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Security Updates via Windows Update?
I am setting up a server to which I will be deploying the site collection and WSP files that I've developed locally.
Prior to restoring the site collection, I'd like to ensure that my build versions ...
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Changing a SharePoint group Title
What would be the harm of changing the name of a SharePoint group? I have a task list that has the SharePoint groups set in the 'Assigned To' for list items. I'm wondering would be the impact of ...
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401 with ClientContext
I am connecting to SharePoint via managed client api. ClientContext connects to the site and access the list data when I specify the site address as http://computer_name but when I give the configured ...
