by Nik Charlebois
Background Information: We want to determine, given a specific user, what lists/libraries he has access to in our SharePoint environment, and what access level he has. We want to automate this discovery process using a PowerShell script that will run on the SharePoint server directly, and will prompt the user executing the script to input […]
Read More Get a List of SharePoint Permissions for a User using PowerShellI believe this is something that will most likely come up for most organizations using the approval process on SharePoint publishing sites. I had a requirement from one of my client to allow users that have read-only permissions to be able to view unpublished versions of pages. These users would only get read access to them, […]
Read More Allow Readers to View Unpublished PagesIf you’ve ever tried to play with sites permissions via the SharePoint Object Model, you’ve probably encountered this nasty security validation error: The security validation for this page is invalid. An easy work around for this, is to temporarily allow unsafe updates to be done at the web level by setting the following property to […]
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