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a user account is identified by a username (also user name) and is the users way to identify herself in SharePoint

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Inconsistent user names in SharePoint

Using SharePoint 2010, some user names in the people pickes and User Information List are shown by John Smith. Others are companyDomain\jsmith. We would like to correct this for consistency. I have checked our active directory records, and there is…
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How do I eliminate duplicate user accounts?

I have a user who is listed only once in our AD, only comes up once in the user selection search, however she is listed twice when looking at a user field within a the datasheet view. Is there any way to purge this duplicate? They are distinctly…
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Deleted Owners rights and alerts for group members

Old accounts were removed from AD and one of the accounts was the owner of some dokuments in Sharepoint. Now that the owner has been removed, the cases and subsites/documents are not displayed correctly. Does anyone know how to change owner who do…
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sharepoint 2010 change system account

How can I get my login account to not show as [System Account]? I've setup up SharePoint locally on my system as standalone environment, using my windows credentials [Domain\Username] to set it up. Everything is working perfectly fine except one…
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Display the name of the user currently logged in?

Is there a way (without SP Designer) that I can display the name of the user that is currently logged in on my team's homepage?
Rob
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IP tracking on user account

Is there any way to track/trace/find an IP that a user account has logged in as? I feel like I have a user logging into the wrong account and is doing some damage...
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Access needs to be given to an external user into a document library which is in a sub site

Access needs to be given to an external user into a document library which is in a sub site. But the user should not be able to view the content of the main site that means the external user should not have access to the main site in SharePoint…
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user search - found but name does not match what's in AD

A user "Marketing Services" (mk@company.com) was added to a list permission about 4 weeks ago. The department decided to change the name to "Marketing Support" and AD was updated (3 weeks ago). Now I go back to the same list and delete the…
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Domain Account migration

here follows the current scenario: Our farm is running MS SharePoint Server 2007 SP2. Our corporate, is migrating all accounts from DomainA to DomainB. For example, user DomainA\XXX will be migrated to DomainB\XXX. DomainA and DominB are with…
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How can new users create their own usernames in SharePoint 2010

I have read that in SharePoint 2003 there was a web part whereby users can create their own usernames using a web part. I am on FBA (Claim-based). Can this functionality be achieved in SharePoint 2010.
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How to handle accounts with powershell?

Our company is changing everyone's AD user account from numeric to alpha or alphanumeric. The move-spuser command will not work because account 4510014 is now jasmith. 4510014 will fail because they are changing the account in AD. How do i do this…
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When choosing plan, does it matter?

I can choose between Business Essentials, Business, Business Premium. But does it really matter? Everyone in my firm will be given a vareity of licenses when it comes up and running?
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Some users can't Contribute

All employees in my company are granted Contribute access through an Outlook group email list. I created a survey and also gave the employees instructions to set up Alerts for announcements. So far, two employees are unable to either Finish the…
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