Questions tagged [user-accounts]
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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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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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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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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Access Denied - While migrating classic to claims
I was following the below links to migrate my classic site to claims based.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/07/20/migrating-from-windows-classic-auth-to-windows-claims-auth-in-...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 attributes....
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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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How can I totally delete a user from Sharepoint 2010?
I can delete a user from a site collection, but I can't seem to delete a user totally from SharePoint.
For example:
Let's say DOMAIN\joetest has a user ID of 15. I can delete that account from the ...
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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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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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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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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?
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Get user email
I wonder how to get the email for a specific user. I want to send an email to the user that created a specific item in a list. I can get the user by using the following
SPWebApplication ...
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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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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 (e-...
