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Active Directory is a Microsoft technology primarily for managing multiple Windows servers and workstations in a single environment. It was first released in 2000.

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How to configure AD to enable SharePoint users to authenticate with [email protected] rath...

If you're not after the syntax username@domain and really want to have [email protected] you need to set this UPN explicitly and that differs from the SAM account name. This means that you can add …
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Is System Account user should be Domain Admin or Local Admin user too?

NO! Your SharePoint Farm Account does NOT need local admin privileges. So don't give it them! But when you configure user profile service application, you need to have local admin permission on your S …
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What permission is required to be able to access and modify AD user properties?

This is a little odd, but I'll try to answer the way I interpret your question. I'm guessing you want to change Active Directory user properties using SharePoint. In order to do this, you should have …
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SharePoint conflict with same username in different domains

One thing you can do is to set the profile picture user property direction to Import instead of Export, assuming user1 uploads the picture in SharePoint. On Export, the picture overwrites the AD profi …
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How to set permission to all AD users in Shareoint 2013

If you only have one Site Collection you want to share, then in the Visitor group (with read permission only) add the user Everyone which is equivalent to NT Authoruty\Authenticated Users. But if y …
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Using Active Directory groups instead of SP groups

The cons is obviously that you won't be able to add users to a group in SharePoint, and you have to manage AD-groups instead. If you already have 10'000 SharePoint groups in your environment, you may …
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PurgeNonImportedObjects doesn’t remove user accounts?

As it turns out, the script worked - but it took a long time. On 7000+ users (in my environment) I had to wait more than an hour before I could see any difference. Six hours later the changes where ma …
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Users do not have access after AD group is inserted in SharePoint 2016 Group

I've seen this behavior at one of our customers and we found that it took up to 24 hours before the AD-group was accessible in SharePoint. To overcome this, we created another SharePoint group, set th …
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Inactive employees in Office365 and MySites

Without knowing more from your post, my guess is that these inactive users in AD still have profiles in Office 365 and assigned licenses. So you need to delete these users, free their licenses (happen …
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Active Directory Import "No containers to display"

In the connection setting, you should use the Fully Qualified Domain Name, and not only the domain name you're using when you're signing in to a computer in the domain. Neither should you use the fore …
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Difference between service accounts and managed accounts

Service Accounts are all the accounts you should use to have a best practice installation of any SharePoint Server. They are ... SP_CacheSuperReader SP_CacheSuperUser SP_ExcelUser SP_Farm SP_Install …
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SharePoint 2013 Permission for AD Group not working

On your site, navigate to Site Settings > Site Permissions In the ribbon, find and click "Check Permissions". The return will show how the user have access to your site.
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Restrict SharePoint access for 1 ActiveDirectory group

In Central Admin, Web application management, highlight the web application you'd like to restrict for a group. Select User Policy from the ribbon and type the group name and select "Deny All". Click …
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Sharepoint Online O365 best practice

Yes there is. You should turn your browser to FastTrack which does exactly what your asking for - all in one place: https://fasttrack.microsoft.com/office If you have more that 150 users, Fast Track …
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Is possible to rename a SPUser(IsDomainGroup) LoginName?

Have you tried running the old STSADM way of migrating users - like the following script. STSADM –o migrateuser –oldlogin MYDOMAIN\old –newlogin MYDOMAIN\new –ignoresidhistory There might be orphan …
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