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A group is a collection of users either in the Active Directory or in SharePoint.

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Adding SPGroups to alets using UI

I have a few SPGroups that I wish to send daily alets to but when I go to "Set an alert on this page" and type a group name in the users field it cannot be found. I am sure it exists and has users. How do I fix this? *I must use the built in alerts…
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SharePoint 2013 Cannot Add Local Group to SharePoint Group

I'm trying to add a windows local group to a Sharepoint Foundation 2013 'Default Owners' group. No matter what I do, it will not work. I get the error 'Sorry, something went wrong. The user does not exist or is not unique' If I try the exact same…
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Where do SharePoint Groups live?

More specifically, if I have a site collection I can create groups while in the root site. I can also create groups while in the various subsites. But from browsing the available groups in the subsites, regardless of whether or not the subsite is…
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How to add programmatically "every user" group to a Sharepoint Site

I'm trying to add a group that contains every user on my SharePoint application. How would I do this? I tried to get the BUILTIN\users or the NT Authenticated\Authenticated users from the SPWeb.SiteGroups[name]... If I add BUILTIN\users from SP GUI…
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get the approvers group in a language independent way

I want to check if someone is an Approver. I am doing it in my Swedish Site: SPGroup approvers = web.Groups["Godkännare"] //check if the current person is in this group - code omitted What if I create the site collection in English, it won't…
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Can a SharePoint group be a member of a SharePoint group?

At my workplace, I am one of two "technical" staff for our department, but there is a central IT department as well which is well funded and heavily staffed. They're happy to manage the SharePoint servers, but not the security model or content…
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Group owner has been changed to someone else

I created a few groups with custom permissions and I was the owner but now I cannot edit the group setting as it says only the owners can do that. Also, I cannot ad or remove anyone to/from the group. There are a few other people with Full Control.…
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What happens if I assign a task to a sharepoint group, with inside it an AD group

I am using SP2010. I have a vs workflow and I create a task with some body and title. I assign the task to a sharepoint group. For example SPGroupA. Inside this Sharepoint group I have added a AD group. For example ADGroupA. In AD I have 2 user…
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Cost per Sharepoint Group created

Does it cost extra after the licensing fee to create different groups in Sharepoint? If so how much?
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Security group maintenance across site collection

Has anyone found another solution to AD for group maintenance across sites? Thanks in advance. We don't have the option of AD to sync groups across site collections. Although most groups are confined to their own site collection, we do have a large…
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CSOM / REST : How can I get the _indirect_ groups for a user?

We are using SharePoint groups to define roles in a custom application. One requirement is to get the groups which the current user is in. I can of course use the User.Groups property but this only returns groups where the user is directly assigned…
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Create a dropdown of Sharepoint Groups with group name beginning with "NEC"

I'd like to filter by group name using wildcard, something like this NEC* Do I use SPServices or how can this be done?
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Cant see the default Approver group in SharePoint site

I am admin to one of my Sharepoint site collection . I have a workflow running on one of the list in my list where my colleague is suppose to approve. If he is busy in his scheduled I should be able to go directly to the workflow and approve the…
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What's the difference between built in groups vs custom groups

Are there any big difference between built in groups (like, approvers, designer, Site Collection Resources members, owners, etc.) and custom groups (like I created using SP gui. Sales-Marketing, Sales-Approvers, Sales-VP) I have "Anyone can view…
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Audience Targeting with SharePoint groups

Can SharePoint groups be used for audience targeting or does it need to a different group type like, M365?
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