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Requirement: Export users and group permissions to Excel in SharePoint. Here is the shortcut to export SharePoint users and groups permission to Excel: Open your SharePoint site in Internet Explorer. Navigate to either site permissions or any User group. Right-click on the users list page, choose the “Export to Excel” item. You…

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SharePoint Group vs Active Directory Group – Which is Best?

February 19, 2022 Salaudeen Rajack 0 Comments

So you need to determine the best way to manage SharePoint users, Whether to use SharePoint groups or Active Directory groups to manage permissions in SharePoint? Well, Both SharePoint Group and AD Group have their own advantages and disadvantages. Let me list down some of them: Manageability: Any SharePoint site owner/admin can…

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Remove User from All Sites in SharePoint using PowerShell

February 19, 2022 Salaudeen Rajack 1 Comment how to remove user from all sharepoint sites, remove a user from all sharepoint sites, remove user from all sharepoint sites powershell, sharepoint remove user from all site collections

How to delete a user from all site collections in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell? Sometimes, we may need to delete a particular user from all site collections. Say for e.g., an employee leaves the company! Here is how to remove a user from all SharePoint sites using PowerShell: This will scan and…

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Create SharePoint Group from Active Directory Group using PowerShell

February 19, 2022 Salaudeen Rajack 0 Comments

Requirement: Convert Active Directory Group into SharePoint Group! Solution: Managing SharePoint users at Active Directory Security group and within SharePoint has its advantages and disadvantages too! Now, we require migrating from the AD group to the SharePoint group. So, let’s use PowerShell to create a new SharePoint group from the Active Directory…

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Create a SharePoint Group using PowerShell

February 19, 2022 Salaudeen Rajack 1 Comment create a sharepoint group using powershell, create sharepoint security group powershell, sharepoint 2016 create group powershell, sharepoint powershell create site group, sharepoint powershell create user group

Requirement: Create a new SharePoint Group using PowerShell SharePoint groups simplify permission management by assigning a set of users to a group and assigning permission levels to them through the group. There are default groups that get created based on the site template you choose while creating site collections, Such as Owners,…

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Migrate SharePoint Users from One Domain To Another using Move-SPUser

February 21, 2022 Salaudeen Rajack 13 Comments how to migrate users from one domain to another in sharepoint, migrate users from one domain to another sharepoint 2016, sharepoint 2016 move-spuser, sharepoint powershell move-spuser

Requirement: During an acquisition, Our company decided to merge with an acquired company’s AD by re-creating their user Ids in our AD. Also, the acquired company had a number of SharePoint sites, and we wanted to migrate them to our SharePoint environment. That brought another challenge of re-mapping user Ids with permission…

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How to Create Default Groups in SharePoint Site?

February 22, 2022 Salaudeen Rajack 0 Comments create default groups in sharepoint 2013, create default sharepoint groups powershell, how to create default sharepoint groups, sharepoint 2013 create default groups powershell, sharepoint create default associated groups

Problem:The default SharePoint groups are automatically created when you create a new site collection through SharePoint Web UI. But, when you create SharePoint sites programmatically or with PowerShell (E.g., New-SPSite or New-SPWeb), The default site groups (such as Visitors, Members, Owners) are not created automatically! Default groups creation from UI: You can…

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Create SharePoint Alert for a Group

June 12, 2021 Salaudeen Rajack 0 Comments sharepoint alert active directory group, sharepoint create alert for group

SharePoint doesn’t provide a direct way to create alerts for groups. Alerts are always targeted to individual user accounts in SharePoint. If you have a requirement to create alerts for a group of people, create an E-mail enabled AD security group and add an alert to it from SharePoint. Set alert to…

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Users and Groups

Export SharePoint Users and Group Permissions to Excel