a user account is identified by a username (also user name) and is the users way to identify herself in SharePoint
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I can add users to the Active users in the portal, but not to People and Groups - Sharepoint 2013 on Office365
I'm using SharePoint 2013 on Office365.
I've added two users in the Admin Portal, both with identical attributes (except name, email address etc.!)
However, when I go onto my site and try to add ...
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User with Full Control can't access or edit member of a group
Like the title describes I have a user who is assigned full permissions but when I click on on the user groups I get a permissions error "You do not have permission to view the membership of the ...
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Getting user's manager in Sharepoint (Javascript)
I'm having trouble with getting user's manager data in Sharepoint Javascript Model.
I'm using context.get_web().get_siteUserInfoList(); through SiteUserInfoList. What I got back is a bunch of info ...
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Different user account names in SharePoint and in central administration
I am replacing a colleague for the support of a SharePoint 2010 intranet.
Active directory users have been imported by a User Profile service application.
I have noticed an issue and I prefer to ...
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1answer
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Character case difference in account name retrieved with UserProfileService
I am replacing a colleage for support of a SharePoint 2010 intranet.
A functionality has been implemented in a site allowing users to make holiday requests.
A user must fill in an InfoPath form to ...
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Users get access denied but “check-permissions” claim they should have access
SharePoint 2010 is giving me a major headache.
We have a site collection with a number of sites where we are trying to give certain users access to certain areas of the site.
The problem is that ...
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Login takes SHAREPOINT\system Account
When I Open m Web sometimes it Takes "SHAREPOINT\system" Account insted of My Own Account.. Can anyone help me why it is doing like that?
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How many users can login on an extranet concurrently using the same username and password?
I got asked an interesting question regarding the a number of users using a generic login to sign in at the same time across different machines.
Is there a particular number that Microsoft recommends ...
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Can Move-SPUser be used to merge users if security is not a factor?
We manage all our site security via AD group memberships. We are currently in the process of folding four AD domains into a fifth domain that already exists. Our farm is in one of those four domains ...
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Can I delete the Document Conversions User Account
I have looked over the site, but couldn't find the answer to this...
I just installed SharePoint 2010 on my Windows 7 machine for development (super exited). I restarted the machine and a new user ...
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How to hide specific list from user or a group
I have one list called Projects. I want to enable this list to the administrators or project managers. If any other person login to the site, that list should not be appear to that person. Also it ...
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How do I add test user accounts to SharePoint 2010 Enterprise?
I would like to add test user accounts to my SharePoint 2010 development environment. It is running on a Windows Server 2008 OS. I have test user accounts I’ve created at the windows level. IIS's ...
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SharePoint 2013 External Users
I'm setting up a brand new SharePoint 2013 server and site, but haven't personally touched SharePoint since 2007. I don't want to use Windows Auth or any Active Directory for user management. Which, ...
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Get current logged user name for user “Account operates as System”
When I'm try to get current logged user name for account domain\username and I added many users to this option "Account operates as System" In code I got the system account not the real name of user ...
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How to create a user for my sharepoint 2010 site without active directory
I am building a sharepoint site for a college department I work for. Our sharepoint site is linked to the active directory of the school so it seems like I can only add users that are in the active ...
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Sharepoint User groups
I have a Sharepoint 2010 portal set up with custom user groups like ManagerUserGroup, SubManagerUserGroup etc. When I add any new user to those User groups, that user gets an 'Access denied' error ...
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1answer
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Where is my Organization Chart?
All i am trying to achieve is to populate the "My Organization Chart", for new users it doesn't display anything:
For other users you are able to see the data:
I tried to start the "start ...
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1answer
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Sharepoint User Management: User Profile and User Information List
What is the difference between User Profile in Central Admin and User Information List in a Site Settings?
I want to add some columns and lookups to Users of a SharePoint site in order to access them ...
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Sort alphabetically Users
When I'm Adding users, i want to sort them alphabetically. Could You help. Here is my code:
SPUserCollection userzyWszyscy2 = witryna.SiteUsers;
foreach (SPUser oUserKolejny in ...
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Unauthorized error when adding form to a form library
I have a webpart that extracts a form from an infopath template then it attempts to add this to a form library in SharePoint. I get an unauthorized error 401 when it attempts to add the file. It ...
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Why I get “Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation” while looping groups users
Could anyone explain me why when I trying to loop user of a group
foreach (var u in group.Users){....},
I get the error :
Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.
I notice that inside ...
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1answer
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System Account Vs. Site Collection Administrators
I have SharePoint 2010 Server. I have put myself as a Site Collection Administrator.
Somehow someone was able to check out a document with the System Account. I, thinking that I had just as much ...
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1answer
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Set-SPSite with UserAccountDirectoryPath to specific OU could be ignored by site collection
I've had the case with SharePoint 2010 site collection what was set during creation to use UserAccountDirectoryPath to specific OU. It created w/o exceptions but wasn't following the restriction ...
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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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2answers
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How to get SharePoint user's manager?
I found some examples on the internet (this one I understand the most). I am confused on how to implement it. I do not know which assemblies I need to reference. Also, shouldn't I use classes from ...
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Why is my Admin user magically transformed to SHAREPOINT\system?
I have an administator, which also is Farm Administrator in my Sharepoint environment. It is synced via UPSA and have all the properties I need do display content the right way. However - when I check ...
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Security Token Service - which account and permissions should be?
I would like to ask you about Security Token Service, in SharePoint Foundation. Default this service works on user who installed SP but I would like to change this account. Which permissions I have to ...
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Get current user in SPFeatureReceiver?
I am working on a web application-scoped feature which creates a site collection. I would like to set the person who activated the feature as site collection owner. To do that, I would have to either:
...
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Create a user-specific home page
Is it possible to have user specific home page in a sharepoint site?
For example when User 1 logins to the site, Homepage 1 will be shown and when User 2 logins, Homepage 2 will appear.
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User display name
I have a user, let's say XYZ in AD. I have classic-authentication web application. My user has set only first name and login name to XYZ. In SharePoint he is displayed as XYZ.
When I update his ...
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1answer
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Users Not Displayed In SharePoint Groups, Missing From User Information List
When certain users are added to a SharePoint group in a particular site collection, they do not appear in the user list in the browser. If added outside of a SharePoint group (ie: given a permission ...
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2answers
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Get Active Directory user for multiple security provider for EnsureUser()
I have 3 security provider for my web application
1. Active Directory
2. ADFS
3. SAML
Now suppose a user exist in all 3 provider.Hence when i do use ensure user method i get error/ exception "user ...
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1answer
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People Picker suggesting account but still no exact match
I just setup my farm and have the generic admin account and a john.doe user account for me. I am trying to add my account john.doe as the admin for a new site collection or add myself to anything ...
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Changing System Account of Central Admin on MOSS 2007
I've been trying to change the System Account used on my MOSS 2007 with Sharepoint 3.0 Central Admin. I've followed the instruction on this page as instructed but the Central Admin, when opened, still ...
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Ability to create users inside SharePoint 2010
We have a very simple SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 installation. We created and configured everything manually, and only set up what we really needed. So there is no user profile service in SP, and we ...
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Unable to change SharePoint account password in SharePoint 2010
I was trying to start Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service
But it threw
The password for the account domainName\empID, as currently stored in SharePoint, is not the same as the ...
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Clone User Permissions for Another User
I have a user that has access highly sensitive information. He is giving a meeting and we want him to use an account that has the exact same permissions as another user. I seem to remember there was a ...
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Backup and Restore Sitecollection: users on target machine not existing
I backed up a sitecollection from Server A and restored that sitecollection to server B using stsadm backup and stsadm restore.
Before the backup I removed the users from the sitecollection user ...
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Limit login attempts to a SharePoint server to a single OU
The setup:
Several SharePoint 2010 Foundation web applications, each on individual servers.
Default SharePoint authentication mechanism in use
Single Active Directory Domain controls user ...
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2answers
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User Profile Service and Account disabled
I'm facing a problem after I have installed and configured the User Profile Service.
When I create the synch everything work fine but now the system floods active directory with wrong credential (I ...
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terminated employee still shows up in user search
From Central Admin > user profile search > Employee not listed (meaning nightly sync took him out)
However, went to a site permission and type the terminated employee's user id "tpatel" and SP ...
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How to find the number of Active Logged in Users across all site collections
I wish to know the possible ways to find out the count of all currently logged in users across all the SharePoint site collections in a farm.
For example (users logged into sites)
John - ...
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1answer
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Why can the local administartor access a site collection?
I'm stumped by an access phenomenon because I am not sure how the permisssons for accessing a site collection work in this specific scenario:
Even though I shouln't be able to do so, I am accessing ...
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user search - found but name does not match what's in AD
A user "Marketing Services" (mk@company.com) was added to a list permission about 4 weeks ago. The department decided to change the name to "Marketing Support" and AD was updated (3 weeks ago). Now I ...
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1answer
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Domain Account migration
here follows the current scenario:
Our farm is running MS SharePoint Server 2007 SP2.
Our corporate, is migrating all accounts from DomainA to DomainB. For example, user DomainA\XXX will be migrated ...
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SharePoint 2010 not seeing Active Directory users
This is a repost from here: http://serverfault.com/questions/380590/sharepoint-2010-not-seeing-active-directory-users Not sure how to migrate questions.
I'm pretty new to Active Directory and ...
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Access Denied - While migrating classic to claims
I was following the below links to migrate my classic site to claims based.
...
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1answer
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How can new users create their own usernames in SharePoint 2010
I have read that in SharePoint 2003 there was a web part whereby users can create their own usernames using a web part. I am on FBA (Claim-based).
Can this functionality be achieved in SharePoint ...
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Fully delete a user from the User Information List (WSS 3.0)
I am having the same issue as this poster on MSDN, but the solution given did not work:
http://bit.ly/Akz5RD
This is also a follow-up from an earlier question of mine:
http://bit.ly/wfjd13
NOTE: ...
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Duplicate userame in site collection after list import form classic to claims authenticated server
I had an list on SharePoint server 2010 enterprise with classic authentication. on the list there was field with usernames
After I migrated (import/export statements below) this list to new server ...
