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Who are AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users in SharePoint? Any user account that can log on to your network! So, If you want all of your AD users to access a SharePoint site, Grant access to “NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users” to the relevant SharePoint group. ‘NT Authority\Authenticated Users’ can also be used to grant access to…

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How to Add Users to SharePoint Site and Grant Permissions?

February 8, 2022 Salaudeen Rajack 2 Comments add new user to sharepoint site, add user to group in sharepoint, add user to sharepoint group, add user to sharepoint group using powershell, how to add user to sharepoint group using powershell

Adding users to SharePoint site is a frequent activity for SharePoint site owners. Users can be added either to any existing SharePoint group or directly under site permissions. Lets see how to add users in SharePoint site. How to Add Users to SharePoint? To add users to SharePoint 2010 site: 1. Log-in…

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Add a User to Owner Group of All SharePoint Sites using PowerShell

June 20, 2021 Salaudeen Rajack 0 Comments add sharepoint site owner powershell, how to add site owner in sharepoint 2013, sharepoint add user as owner, sharepoint add user to owner group, sharepoint add user to owner group programmatically, sharepoint powershell add user to owner group

Requirement: Add user to Owner Group of All SharePoint site collections using PowerShell! We’ve site collections grouped by managed paths such as “Teams”, “Projects”. Got a requirement to add a user to the Owner/Members group of all sites under a particular managed path. How to add a User to the Owner/Member Group…

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Break Inheritance and Add-Remove Item Level Permission with PowerShell

June 20, 2021 Salaudeen Rajack 5 Comments break permission inheritance in sharepoint, how to break permission inheritance in sharepoint 2013, sharepoint grant access to specific document, sharepoint powershell break permission inheritance, sharepoint remove document permissions

Requirement: Break the permission inheritance of a SharePoint list item and grant permission only to a specific user and group. How to Break Permission Inheritance in SharePoint? You can change a document or item’s permissions by stop inheriting its permissions from its parent and add remove permissions to the item directly. To…

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SharePoint Users and Groups Permission Analysis Report for Site Collection

June 20, 2021 Salaudeen Rajack 26 Comments get permission report in sharepoint site using powershell, sharepoint permission report powershell, sharepoint site permission report, sharepoint user permissions report

Requirement: For security audit purpose, had to generate a comprehensive users and groups security report for entire site collection. Some of the sub-sites, some of the lists & libraries are with unique permission. Solution: Lets use PowerShell with little HTML & CSS to generate a users and groups permission Report! On executing…

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Set Permissions and Restrict Access to SharePoint Views

June 20, 2021 Salaudeen Rajack 23 Comments how to restrict access to a view in sharepoint, sharepoint restrict permission to view

Little background: PMO from Sales domain came with this requirement: They Have a list for capturing project metrics in a project collaboration SharePoint Site with below columns: There are two requirements: When Project Managers logs in, they should get projects in which they are assigned as “Project Managers”. When Program Manager logs…

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Audit Specific User Permissions in SharePoint 2007 with PowerShell

June 20, 2021 Salaudeen Rajack 14 Comments sharepoint permission report powershell

In continuation with my earlier post: SharePoint Permission Report: Check Access Rights for a Specific User, got few requests to make the PowerShell script compatible with MOSS 2007. Hence, I’m posting the code here. Make sure you are running the script from Farm Admin credentials who has “FULL Control” Policy created on…

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SharePoint 2010 Permission Report: Check Access Rights for a Specific User

June 20, 2021 Salaudeen Rajack 31 Comments sharepoint permission report powershell

Update: This script has been updated to scan Folders and List Items with Claims support at: SharePoint User Permission Analysis & Reporting using PowerShell Requirement: To ensure security, generate permissions report on all locations like (sites, lists, etc.) where a specific user has permissions. When people moving from one role to another,…

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Find All Sites and Lists with Unique Permissions

June 20, 2021 Salaudeen Rajack 8 Comments sharepoint unique permissions report

Requirement is to Get the report of SharePoint 2010 (or 2007) Sites and Lists where Permission Inheritance is broken. PowerShell to Generate a report for Unique Permissions: And the Output file in Excel:

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Event Receiver to Set Item Level Permissions based on List Column Value

June 20, 2021 Salaudeen Rajack 2 Comments

The requirement is to Set Item Level Permission on Document Library Items based on the field in the document library “Visible to Visitors”. The field “Visible to Visitors” is a Checkbox. Technically, When this column set to True, We’ll have to do nothing. When this column set to False, we’ll have to…

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