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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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SharePoint Navigation Audience Targeting Not Working With AD Group
I ended up contacting Microsoft and was able to get this resolved. We made a few changes so I'm not 100% sure which step fixed it but I have an idea. For starters, it's worth mentioning we used to run ...
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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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If AD group gets a rename will SP automaticly understand its same group just different name?
Either you rename the AD group at AD or Migrate the ad groups from the different domains, names of the AD groups in SharePoint won't change.
Interestingly, they will continue to work as they always ...
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Disabled Users in SharePoint 2013 - Best practices
If the users have already disabled from Active directory and you need to exclude them in SharePoint , you should do the following
Centeral Administration > Application Management > Mange Service ...
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Difference between service accounts and managed accounts
Service Accounts accounts used within sharepoint to run the services, app pools, cache etc are called services accounts. These of domain accounts created within active directory. Like farm admin ...
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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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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 you ...
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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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Migrate MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2013 on different AD environment
To migrate from SharePoint 2007 to 2013 without using third party tools, you'll need to go via an intermediate SharePoint 2010 farm. You should be able to build one on a trial license however for the ...
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Query Membership of Active Directory Group in Security Group in Sharepoint
You can query AD membership using this workaround:
var clientContext = new SP.ClientContext();
var groupId = 5; // the group membership ID for the group you want to check
var group = clientContext....
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Critical error 6398 - User synchronization not working anymore
We were finally able to come through the problem.
When going in the Central Administration page, than Application Management->Manage service applications->User Profile Service Application and click ...
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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
Another thing to check. Check the permission on site collection, if you allowed NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users or Added Everyone in somewhere the site collection. if yes then user will get the ...
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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
There is a property IsHiddenInUI but unfortunately its only a getter property so you cant change its value and hide group in UI.
Now you are afraid that AD group might be removed by some adventurous ...
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Modify PeoplePicker to remove AD results and only show SAML Claims?
Use https://ldapcp.codeplex.com/ codeplex Custom Claim Provider then you can use the following script to hide however this will hide in entire farm.
$cpm = Get-SPClaimProviderManager
$ad = get-...
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Can we use distribution lists inside sharepoint 2016 "Person and Group" column type
Distribution lists cannot be used here as they're used to distribute emails to recipient mailboxes but not more. They do not have any security context as the mail-enabled security groups do.
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Remove users from People Picker - find where they are granted access
PeoplePicker uses three sources to find users:
HiddenUserList of a SiteCollection (which you already found with MemberShipGroupID=0)
SharePoint UserProfileService (which you already cleared)
Finally ...
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SharePoint 2013 on premise - using Azure AD Application Proxy
Azure AD Application Proxy is part of the Azure AD Premium P1 license (see Pricing).
To your questions: Unfortunately you didn't specify what you want to achieve.. Do do want externals to access ...
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How do I get Active Directory Group Name from Sharepoint programmatically?
public List<String> GetADGroups()
{
List<String> result = new List<String>();
PrincipalContext ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, ServerName, UserName, Password);...
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Can I synchronize only users that are members of a certain AD group?
You can also add a LDAP filter to the synchronization connection if you are using AD import.
If you open the User Profile Service Application, then click on 'Configure Synchronization Connections', ...
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How can I create people directory in Sharepoint 2013?
Option 1: Use the Contact List Web Part available in SharePoint
If you are a small organization, you can simply use an out of the box Web Part called Contacts to manage contact information. The beauty ...
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Referenicng a single user on an active directoy group inside People or group colum
People pickers will not enumerate AD groups.
A work around is to create a group of individuals. You do not need to give this group permission to the site, but all the members need to be included to ...
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SharePoint people picker. Show other AD attribute
It is possible.
"User" field (People picker) can display different data, such as "Office". Data is retrieved from SharePoint User Information List. This is hidden list. We can add fields to this list ...
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Added AD Group to SharePoint 2013, how long do I have to wait to get in?
I think it should be quick. i added a AD group into SharePoint group and its work like a charm.
But if you directly adding a AD group into SharePoint site may be take little time, I would close the ...
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Is there a way to auto invite external users to SharePoint Online / O365
If they already exist in your AD, you can dirsync them into your tenant, and give them K1 licenses instead of a full E3 license. This would give them read access to your new intranet in SharePoint ...
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Some Users are missing in People from Active Directory
"People" will show only those users who have been assigned "Exchange Online" license. It is possible to add Users to your Office 365 without giving them any of the Office 365 subscription, except "...
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SharePoint 2013 - How to query members/users of an Active Directory group?
Using JSOM you can find out whether the user is a domain user or not.
But there is no JSOM method available to expand a domain group and find the users. If you want to stick with JavaScript then you ...
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