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How to delete SharePoint group using membershipgroupid in SP 2013

I am trying to move SharePoint Groups from one site collection to another. In target site, the SharePoint groups got created. But the SP groups are showing in groups.aspx & not in user.aspx. Also ...
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Person selection box missing when trying to add a user to a group

I'm working in a SharePoint 2013 on prem environment and I'm running into an odd issue. Here's the setup. There is a subsite (A) in a site collection that has differing permissions from the parent. ...
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Add users to Group with REST calls

We are using REST (with jQuery ajax) to create groups and add members to the groups. We are using the code below (cleaned up a little for legibility). function createGroup(title,user){ var ...
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Users Unable to Access Home Page: This Site Has Not Been Shared with You

I am having issues getting users to access the homepage for our work Sharepoint Website. Any individual who tries to access it gets the message "This Site Has Not Been Shared with You." However, they ...
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Restrict a group to only view the frontpage/default page of my sharepoint

I've my SharePoint site https://xxxx.com. It contains multiple pages and subsite and so on. Is there a way to restrict the access of a specific group, so they can only view the main page aka https://...
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SharePoint user can't see site despite being in AD group

I have a problem where when I give permission to an AD group to a site on SharePoint, the site does not show to the people in that group. It shows when they are in a normal SharePoint group but not ...
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Nested AD group is not able to get permissions on SharePoint 2013

I have this case: DOMAIN1\GroupA (Group type "Security", scope "Domain Local") DOMAIN2\GroupB (Group type "Security", scope "Global") GroupB is inside GroupA. In a SharePoint subsite I have a ...
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SP13 Blog - Group Permissions - Limited to comment

I want to create a user group with the following permissions: Comment on a post Like a post Reply to a post I don't wish them to be able to: Edit a page Add web parts delete content Please, can ...
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Create a group of which the users should have no permissions anywhere in this sitecollection

I want to create a group of users in a site collection. The group should only be for user with restricted permissions. The users in this group should literally be not able to view any page in a site ...
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how to allow Contributor users to be able to add/edit/delete list items but prevent them from modifying site pages

I am working on a sharepoint enterprise server 2013 sites mainly of type Team Sites. some of them have the publishing infrastructure enabled and the other do not have these features enabled. and ...
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Best approach to allow all our employees to Read a site and send them an email when a new discussion item is added

I am working on a sharepoint server 2013, and inside it i create a team site collection with a Discussion Board list on its main page. now i am trying to define the following 2 requirments:- to allow ...
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Active Directory Security Groups integration with sharepoint server 2013

I am a bit confused on how sharepoint 2013 server works with active directory Security Groups & distribution lists. now i am not expert in exchnage and active directory,, so my question is from ...
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Is it safe to add Visitors users who should ONLY have Read permission on my sites, as Group Owners

I have a team site collection inside my sharepoint enterprise server 2013. now i have the built-in group named "Visitors" which have "Read" permission level. and i added multiple AD groups and single ...
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Are there any differences if i create a new Sharepoint User Group from the site collection level or from the sub site level

I am working on a sharepoint server 2013. and i am a bit confused on what is the right approach of creating new SharePoint user groups. now i have the following:- Team site collection http://...
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Groups not showing up in the users.aspx page

When I goto my sharepoint 2013 site collection -> Site settings -> Site Permissions the browser opens with siteurl/_layouts/15/user.aspx I only see two groups in that page. When I goto siteurl/...
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Sharepoint 2013 OOB permissions user group

I have a simple query. I am Site collection administrator in one SharePoint SC. I created a group as SCA with owner permission. I have an ID which is added to the group by Me . Now when I try to edit ...
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Referenicng a single user on an active directoy group inside People or group colum

I am working on a team site inside SharePoint web application 2013, and I have defined the following on my sub-site permission: Inside a "Service Desk Member" group I defined it to have an Active ...
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Best approach to have users that can add/edit/view but cannot delete items

I have created a new sub site named “Finance” of type team site and it comes with these 3 default groups:- Finance Member -----> Contribute Finance Owners -----> Full Control Finance Visitors --...
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Retrieving Permission of ListItem

For sites, we always use the web context to retrieve all the groups for the site. However, I have requirement to retrieve all the users and groups for a list item. The list item has its own permission ...
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Member from group with edit permissions can't add/edit items, other users from same group can

I have this weird thing where sometimes, a user contacts me to say they can no longer add or edit items from a document library or list. When I check the groups that have edit permissions on those ...
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Javascript: Check Permissions Button in SP2013 Toolbar

I've been running into a problem with permissions of AD groups occurring within SP groups. It's a well-documented point of ouch that I'm struggling with. Ultimately, I want to loop through all the ...
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Permission precedence: Group vs Individual

Is there a way to have an individual's permission level that is lower than a permission level granted to a group that the individual resides in? Example: A user is in a group with write permissions, ...
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Can I define a shared security groups for all my sub sites other than the site collection’s security groups

I have created a sub site then I save it as a template. Now I need to define the following permission settings for all the sub sites :- For all the sub sites to define a shared sub sites' admin group....
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Remove user/group from everyone group SharePoint online

Is there a way to exclude a user or group from the 'everyone' security group in SP Online? The reason I ask is we have blog site which everyone needs to be able to contribute to, simple - but we ...
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SharePoint 2013 LDS Groups permissions not working

I set up LDS Authentication correctly. LDS users can login in without problems. In people picker, I can see lds users and groups, but when I set permissions on groups, they're not effective ... I can'...
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SPO 2013 - Default Permission Groups

We are using O365/Sharepoint Online 2013. This question might sound a bit silly, but is there any downsides of removing ALL the default permission groups from Sharepoint Online and creating our own? ...
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Removed groups in subsite sharepoint2013?

Some one removed the groups in a subsite, again i added the groups, is it possible t know who removed the groups in sharepoint 2013?
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Managing permission if there is a list that have different permission than its site collection

I have the following:- Team site collection. With the following general permissions:- "All users" can read Managers can contribute Then I wanted to add a “Contact Us” list of type issue tracking. ...
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How to get groups and their roles/permissions on each individual subsite, without including groups from child elements (such as libraries)?

Using CSOM and C#, how can I get the groups that have permissions on a site along with their roles, given that I have the name of the subsite? Language might be a barrier here, and I tend to explain ...
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How to programmatically get all groups that have permissions on site?

I found this question and that person was asking how to get all the groups from a site, but instead he already has code that returns groups that have permissions on the site. And that is what I am ...
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List Item-Specific permissions

I have a list that I would like to apply list item-specific permissions to. For example I have a list of links: Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 4 And a set of groups: Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 ...
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"Add a Page" option missing from menu

I have a user who is part of "Contribute" group. But when that user clicks on the wheel icon on top, then no "Add a Page" option is shown, although "Edit page" option is available. Even if I give ...
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Is it possible to update group permissions based on user profile?

In SharePoint 2013, is it possible to update group permissions based on user profiles? For example, we will have 50 team sites each with group permissions that each hold 10-50 users. Rather than ...
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Strange SharePoint behaviour regarding "Check Permissions" in a web part

I have a web part in which I am displaying users from User Profile Service which is synced with AD. In my code I get all the users in current site and then see if they are part of any group. If they ...
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Recreate the Style Resource Readers group

2013 Enterprise One of our client's site collections suffered the unfortunate fate of having its Style Resource Readers group deleted. For quick damage control I gave all users permissions to the ...
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SharePoint 2013 Permissions & Active Directory Synchronization

I am running into quite an annoying issue with SharePoint & AD Sync. Basically, SharePoint isn’t recognizing certain users inside the AD groups that I have created and it’s giving them the “Sorry ...
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Authorization Fails When Using Active Directory Group Membership

I have a test user who is a member of an Active Directory Security Group. I've added that Active Directory group to the a SharePoint Group "[SiteName] Users". In this scenario, when I attempt to ...
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