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Usually, AD refers to Microsoft Active Directory - a directory service that contains information about users, groups, computers and other entities relevant for managing enterprise IT infrastructure based on Microsoft Windows Server.
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If AD group gets a rename will SP automaticly understand its same group just different name?
If AD group gets another name will SP automaticly understand its same group just different name or do I need to remove it and add it again in site permissions?
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Unable to replicate the attributes of AD to SPO via AzureAD
I am trying to sync a custom property which is created in AD with SharePoint Online User Profiles.
I want to understand that while it is synced from AD to Azure AD, and while it is synced from Azure ...
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SharePoint 2016 ADFS authentication, people picker shows AD users and AD group, permissions dont work for AD groups
We are using SharePoint 2016 and ADFS authentication. In AD we have users and groups. In SharePoint it is possible to resolve users and groups from AD. When you share a document to an AD user it is ...
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Checking if user is in AD group
One of the fields on list is User Picker where often are place AD groups.
Authentication is set up with claims.
While presenting the item, users which are in this AD groups (and others mentioned in ...
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SharePoint Navigation Audience Targeting Not Working With AD Group
We're using SharePoint 2013 as an intranet portal and want to customize what global navigation links users see based on their AD group membership and I'm having a hard time getting it to work.
I have ...
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Get Profile Name and Photo of all AD users from AD using CSOM
I want to get all the AD users profile name and photo directly from AD using CSOM. Is there any way to do this without getting from user profile service?
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Domain users not showing in People Picker
SharePoint is completely new to me, so thanks for your patience. I have set up a standalone SharePoint 2016 instance for testing/development purposes. However, People Picker cannot resolve domain ...
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Workaround for testing to see if a user belongs to Active Directory (AD) group within standard SP Group
I recently implemented a JS/jQuery solution that checks for all of the SP groups to which a user belongs adds the group names classes to the body tag of the pages I am building. It worked very well ...
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User Profiles email property not getting updated in SharePoint
We have SharePoint 2013 on-premise site, where users from "ABC" AD domain are accessing the site. Now some of the users got new account and email on "XYZ" domain, but still they are part of "ABC" ...
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User unable to see content (links) that others in the same Audience can see
I am using Audiences to display either UK or US links on our Sharepoint portal. It has worked fine for years, but lately new starters are not able to see the links on the portal. If a user is in the ...
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User profile - mapping AD & ADFS
I have the exact same users in AD and ADFS - when I attempt to import the user profiles from these sources I end up with duplicate users, i want to essentially 'merge' the AD and ADFS users for SP ...
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User profile synchronization - AD - "&" character triggers update on users
When doing a sync against AD almost every user get updated. And this happens every time I'm doing a sync!
When I look at FIM it looks like SPS-Deparment detects changes because AD has a different &...
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Get Sharepoint Permissions\Roles (custom) of a user from AD Group that is part of SP Group via CSOM
SharePoint 2013 + provider-hosted app.
User is part of AD group.
AD group is part of Sharepoint group.
Sharepoint group has custom security permissions assigned.
How do I check whether user has some ...
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People Picker, User profile, and AD Sync - small clarification
I am a beginner SharePoint developer, here is my question
The people picker fields in SharePoint, fetches data from user profile or AD?
How do I sync user profile to AD?
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If a User has no permission on site, Workflow throws null exception when trying to send Email
I have run into this problem many times and not yet able to find solution to it.
Scenario:
A user John is present in AD but have no permissions on the site.
A user filling out InfoPath form selects ...
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Synced user cannot be found - EnsureUser - AD - SharePoint 2013
I've created 1500 mysites (pre-provisioning), but there are 25 user that don't get their mysites.
All users can be found after running a sync, but when I try to check for a user with powershell I ...
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What are the alternatives to authenticate in SharePoint beyond AD to use the Rest API?
I am trying to consume via Rest the Ms Project API from a Node client, I was searching and found that it's possible to get an access token from the ACS (Azure Access Control) and use this in the rest ...
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How do I Import/Sync Custom Azure AD fields into SharePoint Online UPS?
The title says it all. I found a Microsoft Blog that sort of explains it, but the jargon is above my level. I've never used Powershell and I haven't written C#.
https://dev.office.com/blogs/...
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Get users of SharePoint security group
How to get the users of SharePoint security group in JSOM.?
I followed several articles including this one:
How to get user security group name through javascript
But none of them were helpful.
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External Access to Sharepoint 365 Site
My organization has a ASP.Net Extranet site that uses the standard .NET SQL membership provider DB using forms authentication, and we also have a Sharepoint site on Office 365 for our internal users ...
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Add AD group to SharePoint Online using REST API
Is it possible to add an AD group into SharePoint. I've created a user group in the Office 365 portal, which appears to be stored in AD. Is there a way of searching for this AD group and adding it.
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email action in workflow using AD groups
We're using Sharepoint Foundation 2013. I have a workflow (2010 workflow) which will send an email when some1 adds something to the list. Tried it both ways - add the AD group to the email action in ...
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SharePoint - cannot change users e-mail address (SIP address?)
We have a SharePoint user (SP2016 on prem) and we need to change his email address. SharePoint user profile is up to date with the correct email address. But when I click on the user within a ...
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Online365. Does SharePoint sync user photos automatically or all users need to visit Delve page?
As I've understood from this article, SharePoint syncs photos when the user visits "Me.aspx" page (when he logs in it triggers synchronization) Am I right?...
We uploaded few photos to AD, they are ...
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how to check if user is logged in from FBA account or AD account
I want to check through the code that the user logged is is from FBA membership provider database or from AD account
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User Import problems
I have a problem that I can't resolve with many searches or impossible to understand.
I am using the AD import with my SharePoint install 2013 sever.
My problem is :
The AD import is ok , I can ...
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disable adding user which are not imported from AD
I'm still able to add users which are not imported via AD-Import in user profile service.
Is there any way to stop adding them in sites?
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SPFieldUserValue.User.Email giving an deleted email address on prod
Am very new to SharePoint. I have got stuck into a strange issue.
On Prod server SPFieldUserValue.User.Email giving an email address which as been deleted. Actually, there were 2 users with the same ...
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Syncing AD Security Groups to Office 365 to use in SharePoint
The organization that I work for has about 2400 employees who we will want to allow access to a site collection. However, only about 150 of those will have Office 365 licenses.
We would like to set ...
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Can we have multiple FBA accounts having same email address?
I have a scenario where I will be creating 2 or more FBA accounts having the same email address.
First place, is this scenario valid? Does SharePoint allow to create accounts with duplicate email ...
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SharePoint Groups and AD Groups
i have one question about the SP Groups and AD Groups.
I'm trying to get all AD Groups which are in one SP Group inserted in SP.
I'm trying to get them in C#.
For example:
When i have SP Group ...
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Best way to read data from AD and insert in a list in Office 365
What is the best way to read data such as name, email, designation, department, etc. from AD and insert in a SharePoint list in Office 365?
Is there some kind of event available which will fire when ...
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Can't find AD data connection when importing pictures from AD
I want to syncronize the pictures in AD with SharePoint 2013, but I can't seem to find the AD data connection. I'm following this guide.
But when I go to select the AD data connection when adding a ...
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User deleted and re-added to AD - Profile now empty on MOSS
A user was accidentally deleted from AD and re-added once we realised what happened, now the user is unable to access the SharePoint site they work within. I re-added the permissions to the specific ...
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People picker does not find users in other domain with two-way trusted connection
Our customer has two domains with two-way trusted connection between them. On one of them they have a SharePoint farm. The problem is people pickers only find users that exist in the domain which has ...
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How to exclude expired users from AD sync?
I am using sp 2010. I would like to exclude expired users from the AD sync connection. How can I implement this?
NOTE
I mean Expired date and not Disabled.
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Attempted to access an unloaded appdomain
I wrote the following code some years ago (or maybe I took it from the web, don't remember):
protected static CustomUser GetSiteUser(IIdentity identity, string siteUrl)
{
using (...
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AD group users can not access SharePoint site
I have created an AD group with 320 users, and added the AD group to a SharePoint group so users can have access, however there are around 20 users that cant access SharePoint site and receive access ...
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OneDrive failed to sync - "Sorry, OneDrive can’t add your folder right now", MachineIsNotAllowedToSync
I have two computers in discussion, one from work (joined in a company domain) and one personal. Trying to sync OneDrive for business on personal computer fails, with this message:
Sorry, OneDrive ...
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Is it possible to search cases/documents by user's sid?
In AD I have a lot of users that may change their personal data.
When I use search by user name obviously I don't get correct results. One solution is to update all necessary items metadata when user ...
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User profile not updating in SharePoint
We have a SharePoint 2013 environment and we use SharePoint Active Directory Import for User profile synchronization. We have the connections setup for different domains and the timer job “User ...
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How do you populate information from a user's AD profile to a list in SharePoint
We have a custom list for user access request....as it stands now, they have to select the employee name and supervisor from the(ppl picker) fields, and select the following from a drop down (job ...
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Issue sending workflow email, to an email enabled AD security group
I have an issue sending workflow email, to an email enabled AD security group. I sandwiched the AD group inside a SharePoint group and give permission in the site(this is the usual way to send email ...
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How to resolve "Multiple entries matched, please click to resolve."?
I am working with SharePoint Foundation 2013.
I have created a custom HTML page and kept a Client Side People Picker.
Now when I set the current user in People Picker I get following
There is no ...
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User Azure AD groups in SharePoint
We have an education license office 365 and i can create groups in AD azure portal (Microsoft).
but in SharePoint I can see users but not groups
anybody can help me to see groups (created in azure ...
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User ID's in User Information List are updated/changed
In which scenario's user id's will update/changed?
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks in Advance.
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PowerShell Script to detect ADUser Changes before synching to Office365 [closed]
Office365 - OneDrive for Business is sending out some alerts to managers of colleagues advising that their content is going to be deleted as they're leaving. Nothing is visible in the tenancy setting ...
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Update-SPProfilePhotoStore executing successfully but not Profile updating photos in sharepoint 2013
I'm running this command in powershell Update-SPProfilePhotoStore -CreateThumbnailsForImportedPhotos 1 -MySiteHostLocation http://mysite.mydomain.local It's executing successfully but the profile ...
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Permissions to AD group does not work until refresh
I have an AD group "superusers" which has direct access to some list items in a list. Using Check Permissions show that even though the AD group is listed with access to the list item, it does not ...
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Allow custom non-AD CRM users with SharePoint online login
Trying to figure-out if it's possible to allow for non-AD users from a custom CRM system (where users credentials are stored in a custom SQLServer DB) to login with their credentials on SharePoint ...
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