Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
Problem: SharePoint group owner cannot add user! group owner gets access denied. Root cause: It’s a common misconception that group owners get access automatically, as you are made the owner of the group! Just because you made someone “Group Owner” doesn’t mean they get access to the site! They can’t access the…
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By default, SharePoint Lists and Libraries inherit permissions from their parent site when created. There are times when you may want to implement unique permissions on a SharePoint list level. E.g., if there are users who should access only a specific list in a SharePoint site but not any other object. So,…
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So, the previous SharePoint administrator left without documenting SharePoint secure store Service passwords? Unfortunately, there is no way to get stored user name, passwords from SharePoint secure store service from the Central Administration site. No worries, let’s use PowerShell to decrypt all user names and passwords stored in SharePoint secure store service….
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Change Service Accounts in SharePoint 2016 Are you looking to change your service accounts in SharePoint? Perhaps you’ve recently changed your domain name and need to update all of your service account references. In this guide, we’ll show you how to change your service accounts in SharePoint quickly and easily. I will…
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How to Remove user from SharePoint group? As a SharePoint administrator, you may need to remove users from groups from time to time. This can be done in the SharePoint site with the web browser interface or PowerShell. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of removing users from groups…
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Self-Signed certificates provide encryption between the two ends. Technically, self-signed certificates are signed with their own private key. Often they are used in ADFS configuration. We may also have to use self-signed certificates in DEV-Test environments and for evaluations purposes. Let’s see how to create a self-signed certificate using IIS. Never use…
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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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How to redirect HTTP to HTTPS in SharePoint? Changing the SharePoint site from HTTP to HTTPS is a common requirement. URL rewrite module is a great plugin for IIS to achieve various sort of redirects in your SharePoint site (or any web site technically!). Let’s see how to implement HTTP to HTTPS…
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Permission management in SharePoint is always a complex task, especially in large environments. Granting permissions in SharePoint becomes cumbersome when you are trying to clone an existing user’s access rights. Consider this scenario: You have an existing user in a department granted access to various SharePoint web applications, sites, lists, files, etc.,…
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We have a requirement to reset customized permissions of a large set of SharePoint libraries and documents. We can reset the permission inheritance and delete unique permissions for a site/web/folder/item level where the inheritance is previously broken. E.g., for a library: Go to your library, click on Library Settings. In the settings…
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