Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
By default, the people picker will issue queries to all two-way trusted domains and two-way trusted forests to search people & groups. It uses the application pool account to search the target domains and forests. If the application pool account does not have permission to the target domains or forests, or if…
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Here is my requirement: I want to Show Custom Log-in button for Anonymous user, and once logged in I want to show the Log-out for Authenticated users. Here is the implementation part. 1. create your own Log-in and Log-out button images, place them under: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\IMAGES Important: Do…
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ViewFormPagesLockDown is a SharePoint Feature (not in WSS) that helps us in: Allows anonymous users to only view the Publishing pages, not any of the form or view pages (DispForm.aspx, AllItems.aspx) Disallows anonymous access to pages in the _layouts directory that inherit from LayoutsPageBase. By default, all publishing sites have the feature…
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There are lot of naming conventions/patterns in naming service accounts for SharePoint. Here is mine: Service Accounts Naming Pattern – Best Practice:svc + environment (Such as Dev, Test, Prod) + SP + account name (keep the service account names to less than 20 characters) SharePoint 2010 Service Accounts List and required Permissions:…
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In a new SharePoint web application, it prompted for user name and password repeatedly And finally resulted in “Not Authorized – HTTP Error 401. The requested resource requires user authentication” – in the SharePoint site with Kerberos Authentication Enabled. Here is some more spec: MOSS 2007, Windows 2008, IIS 7.5. Solution: With IIS…
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How to enable anonymous access in SharePoint? To Enable Anonymous access in SharePoint 2010, We need to do the change in Central admin & Site collection: Step 1: Enable Anonymous Access in Central Administration: Go to: Central Administration > Application Management > Manage Web Applications, and Select your web application by highlighting…
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Wonder, What is the difference between Read and View only permission in SharePoint? Here is the difference between Read and View Only: With view only permission, users can not View/Download the documents into the client applications, like Microsoft Excel! (But downloading the documents is possible, like saving the document to their local…
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To Register a Managed account, went to: Central Administration >> Security >> Configure Managed Account >> Register Managed Account Central admin returned the error: An error occurred while getting information about the user at server : Access is denied Solution To solve this issue, you need to add the account using PowerShell! Logon to your server…
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