Security is the protection of information and property from theft.
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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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Force a Sharepoint Group's landing page
Lets say I have two groups, Group A and Group B.
By default my sites landing page is home .aspx (If I use http://sok1234:456/ It will take me to home.aspx ).
Now my requirement is when a user from B ...
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Security for SharePoint 2010 site pages
I have three pages in a SharePoint site. Lets say
A.aspx
B.aspx
C.aspx
I also have two groups - say ALLACCESS and LESSACCESS
now I want
A.aspx page should access only by ALLACCESS, no ...
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All domain users have full control
On our SharePoint 2010 development server, I noticed that all domain users had full control. On the "Intranet Owners" group, which has Full Control permission level, there are the admin accounts from ...
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Prevent editors from inserting web parts
Is it possible to restrict editors from inserting web parts anywhere on a SharePoint 2010 publishing page? This article talks about disabling it for certain parts of the page or hiding the Ribbon ...
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Publishing delay based on permissions
We are about ready to grant access to outside partners and contractors to a site collection on our main SharePoint site. We would like just these partners and contractors to see everything in the site ...
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Where to store cryptograhic key for external service
I have a SharePoint 2010 web part that communicates with an external service. The external service provider gave us a secret cryptographic key that we must use to sign our requests. Currently, the key ...
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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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Need extra layer of authentication on SharePoint list
The following below was requested in an effort to eliminate any security isses. (We are currently using the default NTLM authentication):
-Create a hidden URL extention for admin's only (new site ...
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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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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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Frequently Needed Business Rule About Security that SharePoint Does Not Provide OOTB
Suppose that i have two lists like this
REGION_LIST [ RegionName(text), RegionResponsibles(multi-select peoplepicker) ]
ISSUES_LIST [Some issue related columns, Region(lookup) ]
Main requirement is ...
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giving access to an entire web application
Im trying to elevate someones permissions so that they can edit and add users etc across all site collections in our farm. I added the user into the farm admins group but it doesnt look like their ...
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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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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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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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SharePoint 2010: Site security
I have Site collection (http://myapp/sites/sitcol) and i have two site in that site collections i.e root site (http://myapp/sites/sitcol/) and site2 (http://myapp/sites/sitcol/site2).
i have two ...
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How to make dropdown link only visible to a certain group of users?
So we have a Management Meeting every two weeks and inside there is confidential information. Basically we want to make it so that link for this site/page is not even visible except to users within a ...
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Adding/Updating to a SharePoint List with AJAX securely?
I'm creating a Site Definition that will have a Stack Overflow like Q/A system.
I'm hung up on the upvote/downvote system.
I see a number of ways to do this, but what I think works best is to have ...
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Security Permissions broke while restoring the site on a new farm
I got a problem while restoring SP2010 sub-site from our old SP2010 farm to new farm through a full backup. The subsite on old farm had unique permissions. As well as the lists inside the sub-site ...
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Sharepoint 2010 users strangely removed from Sharepoint Group (Expert Advise required)
Since 3 months client portal was working fine suddenly due to some network problem we restarted SharePoint server, after that some Active directory users complained system was inaccessible, where ...
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Is AddAndCustomizePages only available at site level?
I've read this forum entry which states that it is not possible to have AddAndCustomizePages work at lower than I site level. I have .aspx pages in a folder and I would like my SharePoint group to ...
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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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Sharepoint Security issue in _layouts/user.aspx
Considering the following scenario :
- create a SharePoint site collection
- create a new security permission level "Test", with "Manage permissions" checked.
- create a new Group, with "Contribute", ...
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Risks of using Permissive vs. Strict for Browser File Handling
We have some web sites in our SharePoint 2010 site collection that need to display SWF files (to play FLV videos). For SharePoint to render the videos, we go to the web application in Central Admin > ...
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Using Information Management Policies to prevent users from downloading videos from a document library
I have a basic SharePoint 2007 document library which contains a number of videos (.wmv files). This list is lives within our company's intranet and so is accessible only by authorised users.
We want ...
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How to give access programatically to a site
In my scenario we want to customize the access request page.
We already know how to create an application page, and with a powershell command, instruct sharepoint to use that page instead.
...
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Additional databse - best practices
Our system needs to synchronize data with external systems by web services. We want additional database to keep needed data and then be able to access it. I wonder how to resolve issue with database ...
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add users to central admin but don't allow them acces to change security or permissions?
Is it possible to give users access to Central Admin but deny them access to change security or permissions.
For example, they can do everything from creating a web application, service application, ...
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How to troubleshoot Access Denied without guessing?
I had an issue where users are getting "Access Denied" even though they shouldn't. It turned out to be related to custom code and fixed in the end, but there was a lot of guesswork involved.
Is there ...
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Unauthorized Access Exception when trying to get site Owner
I get the following exception message:
{"Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation."}
at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.get_Owner()
at MySite.Intranet.QuickLinks.MySiteviewpage.GetSiteOwner()
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Feature Admin tool gives AccessDenied error
I'm using the Feature Admin Tool to discover faulty features on my SharePoint 2010 farm. However, when I click the "Find Faulty Feature in Farm", it throws this error:
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An ...
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Creating a web part to manipulate List Data bypassing List and ListItem security
I have a Tasks List and I need to create a Web Part to display one view of that list (with a functionality similar to a List View Web Part: item viewing, editing, sorting, filtering, etc).
However, ...
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How to prevent users from getting at the source files for Excel Web Services
I have a request to put a large Excel dataset on a MOSS 2007 sharepoint page.
The XLSX is about 13 MB in values alone - about 50,000 rows. It's updated weekly, usually in batch form (i.e. some ...
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Permission not recognized by collaboration sub-site
I created a sub-site and disinherited from parent. This sub-site contains two specific permission groups. However, people outside the permission groups can still access the site, albeit with read only ...
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Redirecting between zones in MOSS 2007
I have Two zones(Intranet and Internet) for a MOSS Team site.I want something like this
When a Intranet(Local AD User) user try to visit Internet zone, he/she should be redirected to the Intranet ...
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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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Best practice: Task list item security, so only Assignee & Administrator can change tasks
I'm reading up on Sharepoint and it's security limitations in terms of unique permissions on items within lists (max 2000 per level).
I will have a list/doclib with about ~800 entries, probably with ...
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User Roles and Security Profiles
How do I configure user roles as security profiles? Is it feasible with Foundation and Windows Server on a hosted site. Will I have access to Profile Services?
Thanks.
Richard
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Using host file
I created an application in SharePoint, lets call it http://example.com/ and a site collection with the "Empty Site" template.
Since I'm using it locally in a virtual machine in host-only mode, I had ...
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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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Securing files in a library by a people column?
SharePoint Online 2013.
Library with a people column added.
For the site owner, they can add files at will, but must select a person for that column for every file.
But for library members, we ...
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Permissions needed by System security officer
In our current setup. I am responsible for Sharepoint in our company. This means that I do everything from deploying to application support to giving users rights to the platform when it is required.
...
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I want a literal 'Read/view Only' library - no save, download or print functionality. Is this possible?
I have a number of documents that I want to be literally 'Read Only' in a Library (ideally view in the browser). This means that I want to disable the 'Save As', download and print functionality to ...
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IE warning - Microsoft Office Contact Retriever
When I open a SP 2010 page with IE 10 on Windows 8, I get this warning:
Internet Explorer Security
A website wants to open web content using this program on your
computer:
Name: ...
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Service account to access UNC
I'm trying to access the UNC to copy a file from the UNC share to another location. The way it is set up it requires an interactive challenge for credentials, and I was told there is no way to change ...
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Run Sharepoint Query web service with just the username and/or user role known
On my current project we are implementing a WCF layer wrapping Sharepoint web services. Search is a huge thing in our App. So, we are using a QueryService extensively. It works like a charm in its ...
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SecurityException on list GetItems
I'm using custom list event receiver on SharePoint Online to process some field in the item.
In the Event Receiver, I use a query to another list to retrieve value from that list in to current item. ...
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SharePoint 2013 Site Collection Move Owner to Group
I am in process of migrating our WSS 3.0 installation to 2013 and I am at the point where I need to break the single site collection down into more manageable sizes and I have a script that ...
