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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Inconsistent user names in SharePoint
Using SharePoint 2010, some user names in the people pickes and User Information List are shown by John Smith. Others are companyDomain\jsmith. We would like to correct this for consistency.
I have ...
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4answers
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Web scoped Timer Job
Could you help me understand the SharePoint timer job?
The issue is simple. I should implement a page and put it to the layout folder (the page should be accessible from any web). This page should ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Limitations for concurrent login of the same user?
I am not aware of such limitation but recently while preforming some custom upgrades to our farm I experienced some strange things (or not?).
Our development team is sharing Site Collection Admin ...
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2answers
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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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2answers
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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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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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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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3answers
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People Picker:’ Select People and Groups’ finder doesn’t find users from site collection
Environments(test/production):
Production:
• MOSS 2007 Ent. SP2 (2008 r2 x64)
• 1x App(2008 r2 x64)
• 2x WFE(2008 r2 x64)
• 1x SQL 2008 (2008 r2 x64)
• Profile import will find users ...
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2answers
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How do I eliminate duplicate user accounts?
I have a user who is listed only once in our AD, only comes up once in the user selection search, however she is listed twice when looking at a user field within a the datasheet view.
Is there any ...
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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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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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Retrieve only the fields shown in userdisp.aspx from User Information List
I have built a Web Part in Visual Studio 2008 to show the current user's information (this is for WSS 3.0).
I have no problem iterating through all the fields in the SPListItem, but I want to filter ...
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1answer
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SharePoint 2010 - Change Password WebPart?
I´m searching for a free SharePoint 2010 WebPart to change the password from the current user.
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3answers
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How do I find out what a group has permission to?
I'm cleaning up a farm that has loads of junk groups on it. Is there an easy way to tell if any of these groups have been assigned access to anything? The intention is to delete groups that have ...
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3answers
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Password management web parts? [closed]
Does anyone of you know some webpart providers. I am desperately looking for a SharePoint webpart which can do following.
change password
lost password recovery (e-mail)
change password reminder ...
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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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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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3answers
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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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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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Where are users in SharePoint stored?
Quick question, I don't know how SharePoint i set up like this, but where are users stored? I recently got to a new workplace and there's a Sharepoint site here which has been programmed a bit. And I ...
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1answer
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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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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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2answers
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IP tracking on user account
Is there any way to track/trace/find an IP that a user account has logged in as? I feel like I have a user logging into the wrong account and is doing some damage...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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3answers
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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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2answers
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Show deleted users in User Information List programmatically
I am working with retrieving user info programmatically in WSS 3.0. I understand that users are stored in each Site Collection's User Information List. Deleted users are not visible in the User ...
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3answers
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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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Display the name of the user currently logged in?
Is there a way (without SP Designer) that I can display the name of the user that is currently logged in on my team's homepage?
Thanks in advance for your help
Rob
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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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CAML Query to retrieve First Name using Email Id of users in Sharepoint
I am creating a custom workflow which gets activated whenever some data is entered in a particular list. One of the field in this list is a column for Email ID of the a user( not necessarily the ...
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1answer
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Sharepoint 2007-User Login Problems
I have developed an application on my development box. I have some windows users on the system. I have created some groups and added the users ti those groups. I have given permission to the group, ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Migrating Users list from old site to a new site
I have a backup of a 2007 site which has been upgraded and added as the root site collection in a new web application. I am currently migrating content from this site collection to another site ...
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2answers
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Sharepoint 2010 grab SIP address from AD?
I would like to have the 'SIP Address' (eg. sip:myname.companyname.com) field automatically filled in so we can use Portal's 'presence' functionality - as far as I can see we have no dedicated LDAP ...
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1answer
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SharePoint 2010 with UAG - LDAP and AD users
We are trying to test the following setup.
We have a SharePoint Farm in our forest (setup to use Kerberos). The DC of the SharePoint farm domain contains an AD with external users and their ...
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1answer
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Sharepoint 2010 Standalone mode not hooked up to AD
I have installed sharepoint 2010 in standalone mode. the only user it is seeing is the user I created the account with. How can I point it to AD to see other users? this is a test server on our ...
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0answers
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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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1answer
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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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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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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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0answers
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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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2answers
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Using SharePoint Site across domains
We have a SharePoint site in a domain where most of the users are located.
A few users are in a different domain.
Is it possible to give these users access to the site? Does it require a trust ...
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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 ...
