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Assignment of security to content.

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Migrating a file share to SharePoint (metadata vs. folders)

Much easier to maintain permissions at the folder level rather than document level. …
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Users with Full control can't add documents and don't see all menu options

Do you have backups running? You may want to validate that the site collection is not locked in Central Admin: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263050(v=office.12).aspx Sometimes, the si …
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Read-only column in a SharePoint list

I completely agree with @Marc D Anderson and @Matt Weimer. You can use JavaScript to help with the UI presentation and an event receiver to enforce the values server-side. As for the JavaScript porti …
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How to find permission level for a SPGroup (2010)?

Prints out all the groups for the SPWeb and the group's role names: using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://server/sites/sitecollection/")) { using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb("test")) { …
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Is there a way to set the datasheet.aspx page so that certain groups see different fields?

There is no such thing as column level security in SharePoint 2007 out of the box. In addition, datasheet view is not customizable. I would recommend creating two separate views: one for members and …
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Issue with CAML and Permission on Lists

Permissions are a strange beast. No. … In SharePoint, if you have permissions to an item directly inside a container (ex: Library, Folder, Site) then you will automatically get permission to the container itself. …
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Nested AD Groups not propagating permissions

Answer: One of the groups is not setup as a security group in Active Directory. This still applies to all versions of SharePoint and is most common for nested sub-groups. To verify: Contact the tea …
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What permissions do I need for a user to see all entries in a list where typical users can s...

the "Manage Lists" permission which is present in the following roles by default: Manage Hierarchy Design Full Control So... a user would need at least the "Manage Hierarchy" role set in the list's permissions
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HTML in SPGroup.Description

Yup, you've found another SharePoint-ism. You'll need to the add the group like you're doing and then update the item in the SiteUserInfoList. We use the following static method: public static void …
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Use workflow to remove/add group permissions

If you are removing the permissions of the current user, it is very likely that you will run into issues. … If you are adding permissions, then you are probably OK For example: I was making a workflow that updated a status field and then removed permissions to limit permissions to only an "admin" group. …
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Find all workflows with a certain permission setting

Not really. You would probably need to write some custom code in powershell or a c# console app to recursively explore your farm and check SPList.WorkflowAssociations for your workflow. I'm not sure …
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