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Requirement: Get the list of All AD Security groups used in SharePoint sites. We need to generate a report on AD groups used in a SharePoint web application. PowerShell script to find AD Groups in SharePoint: Here is my PowerShell script to find and export Active Directory groups on all SharePoint sites…
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What is a Managed Account in SharePoint? Why do We need Managed Accounts? SharePoint uses service accounts for operations such as Farm accounts, application pools, and service applications. You have to keep track of all service accounts with their password in a secured file in your system. If the password for any…
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Everyone has their way of setting up service accounts. Technically, it’s possible to run every SharePoint service under ONE account. Let’s follow the least privilege principle best practice. Recommended SharePoint 2016 Service Accounts and Naming Conventions: When running with multiple SharePoint 2013 / 2016 environments like Dev, Test, and Production (Best Practice!),…
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Introduction:Active directory federation services is the solution for extending enterprise identity beyond the corporate firewall. It simplifies sharing identities between trusted partners across organizations. It’s a common requirement in a typical business scenario, users in one organization want to access a secured application/website from another organization. Without ADFS, we’d end-up re-creating user…
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You may have to change your service account passwords for reasons such as: Password expiration, Security best practice, Your SharePoint guy left your company, etc. Remember those old days? You got to run stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials and update application pool accounts on every server on the farm? Luckily, we got managed accounts…
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Managed accounts are active directory accounts for SharePoint whose credentials are managed by SharePoint. Managed accounts in SharePoint 2013 is explained in another article: Configuring Managed Accounts in SharePoint 2013. Important: Before creating a managed account, They must be already created in your Active directory. How to create a managed account in…
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As the name suggests, Anonymous access allows anonymous users to view pages in SharePoint. Setting up anonymous access in SharePoint sites is a common task for most of us, and often we do it to enable anonymous access for SharePoint 2013 for public-facing sites. Let’s see the steps needed to configure anonymous…
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Typically, if you don’t have access to a SharePoint 2013 site and access requests are not enabled, You get : “Sorry, this site hasn’t been shared with you” message when you try to access any SharePoint 2013 sites. Its a common issue and simply means that you have not been granted access…
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SharePoint Managed accounts feature was introduced in its 2010 version, and of course its a wonderful feature to manage service accounts (I remember those old days.. We used to create a batch file to update password for each and everything in SharePoint 2007!). So, We utilized managed accounts in SharePoint 2013, enabled…
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The federated authentication mechanism handles authentication by external providers which send the token back to SharePoint. So, Instead of creating accounts internally (in AD, SQL Server) for external users and partners, We can make use of external authentication providers like Microsoft Live ID Accounts, Google, Yahoo, Facebook accounts (or even external Active…
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