My Azure Subscription is listing Default Directories from other people's subscriptions within my "All Directories" listing. I want to remove them...but I'm having an EXTREMELY difficult time doing it.
I have contacted the owners of these directories...and they do not respond to my requests to be removed
This has been going on for months
Q: How do I dis-associate myself and/or remove these directories from my listing?
UPDATE:
Unfortunately, the "Leave New Experience" on https://myapps.microsoft.com does not display enough information to be sure "which" Default Organization I am leaving.
I could accidentally leave my own...right?
I took a chance...and it threw an exception...so this UI doesn't work
This works even for personal addresses:
Go to https://myaccount.microsoft.com?tenantId={directoryId} (replace {directoryId} with guid of the directory you wish to leave), click Organizations, click Leave, verify that guid is correct and confirm.
You can try this,
Log into the Access Panel at https://myapps.microsoft.com
In the upper-right corner, select your name.
Next to Organizations, select the settings icon (gear).
Under Organizations, find the organization that you want to leave, and select Leave organization.
NOTE : If you are not seeing the gear icons next to organizations, you need to switch to the new old look by clicking on leave new experience as below
You can go to https://myaccount.microsoft.com/organizations to leave AAD organizations that you have been invited to.
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We are using Azure Devops with our team, we want to have a space were other colleagues out of our team can add ideas about future project.
We created a specific Backlog "Wishlist" and give to some users a StakeHolder account. We added them to the members of this backlog.
We want them to be able to create ticket, but not to edit them (no delete, no chamgement of state ...)
Our team that have admin rights will be able to operate those work items (accepted, rejected, Active and Close)
I look for a solution to restrict those user from editing but was not able to found a successful way to do it.
-In Rules, We couldn't specify those specific rule about work Item edition
-In Project Settings / Permissions / Wishlist
we don't have any permision linked to the Work Items
-In Project Settings / Project Configuration / Areas / Wishlist / Security
We can set for specific users "Edit Work Items in this node" to Deny, but they will not be able to create Work items
If someone have an idea about how to deal with this request, it will be highly appreciated.
Thank you
Sorry, it's not able to do this right now.
A user needs to have the Edit work items in this node permission for some Area and Iteration path to create a work item.
There is no sperate permission for either creating or editing work item. This is by designed.
I have two Azure Active Directories that I cannot delete. One is a remnant from a project at a former company. One is from a Azure demo that I tried.
I am certain that these directories are not being used and I would naturally like to delete them.
When I switch to either of these directories I get a notification popup in the upper right corner of the Azure portal which states: "You do not have any Azure subscriptions in the directory".
After switching to either of these directories I went to the Overview page (Azure Active Directory -> Overview).
In the menu bar at the top of the overview page the "Delete Directory" button is grayed out. Hence my problem.
Also the Overview page indicates that my role is User. Clearly this is not encouraging, since generally only owners can delete items.
So I appear to be stuck with this useless clutter.
Any suggestions. Should I contact Azure support and have them try?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Best regards,
Frank
I had the same issue as you (like 25 AD's from testing at different clients'), and no way to remove them. Contacting support will get this sorted quickly. I do wonder how people do this without a suppor package ;-)
Currently i generated excel file from TFS 2013.
I want to disable editing this file for some specific users.
I tried to add these users in the group Reader only, but they can modify the excel file then publish it.
On the other side, i want to give them the ability to refresh the excel file and get the latest status.
By "publish" I assume you mean the Check In permission. Readers don't have an explicit Deny on Check In by default, so you may find that people who can still Check In are members of another group with permissions. The usual group being the Contributors group.
To force the matter you can go to the file in question in Source Control Explorer, right click it and select Advanced -> Security and then explicitly set the Reader group to Deny for the Check In right.
I assume that you mean "publishing work items". If you do then people in the readers group will not be able to publish unless they also have contributed rights. So while they can click "publish" they will not be able to make changes on TFS, and they will be able to refresh.
I have two reports that I need to build. One that has a dozen or so columns. The other has the same columns + 2 extra. The first one is aimed at employees the second with the additional columns is aimed at Sr. Management.
I have a windows group set up for the proper Sr. Mgt users.
I am using SQL 2012.
I've done some SSRS stuff, but not enough to say I'm competent to do more difficult reports.
The problem I'm having is that we do not want the employees to see the sensitive information in those two columns. Frankly, we don't even want them to know the existence of a different report.
Option 1: I was thinking I can just create a folder in SSRS and add the report there and hide the folder. I created it and applied the security but it seems that everyone can see the folder. Maybe they can't edit anything in it or even maybe they can't read anything in it, but this solution, if unchanged, will not meet the goal of having them not even see it exists.
Option 2: I was thinking that I can use the UserID condition to hide the columns in the report and just create one report that differs depending on who was viewing. There are two issues that surfaced in my research. First, there is no facility for using Windows Groups instead of userid. That would mean I have to maintain the list of people inside the report and boy would that be a pain. And second, my understanding is that the export facility does not respect the column actions -- like hiding.
Am I making this too complicated? Is there an easier way to do this? With no other solution, so I need to put up another instance of SSRS for management and make them go back and forth?
Thanks for your time
Option1: You should not be able to 'browse' for folders unless the 'parent' level permission has an 'everyone' user set up to browse on the higher level. Set up a test account and RDP to a box you can use the test account on. Generally under 'Folder Settings' you set up permission and it cascades down until interupted. If you have a parent permission to browse and a lower one not to, they may be able to browse directories. You can ensure that the directory has ONLY dedicated users and the inherited settings are removed manually.
Option2: I would NOT do this. You will have a maintenance nightmare on your hands as you would have to determine in code who was what and update a list that would probably need to be updated somewhere in SQL or a service. As far as I know SSRS does not work with getting parameters and such directly from AD so you would have to code this time and again. For this reason and security context I would avoid this.
Option3: Set up a 'Subscription' to save the report to a file format(excel, pdf, word, etc) or email on a scedule and turn off permission for everyone but admins. If someone can still see the report or directory there is most likely a security context issue.
Option4: You can do a cheapy 'Hide in tile view' move that for most users will hide the directory unless they go to the URL directly and have access. Click on a folder then choose 'Folder Settings' then check 'hide in tile view' and hit okay. Directory is now gone for most part for regular users browsing in default mode.
I think we can just fix your problem, and avoid inventing a complicated and unnecessary solution:
Option 1: I was thinking I can just create a folder in SSRS and add the report there and hide the folder. I created it and applied the security but it seems that everyone can see the folder. Maybe they can't edit anything in it or even maybe they can't read anything in it, but this solution, if unchanged, will not meet the goal of having them not even see it exists.
Chances are that either you set up the security settings wrong, or there's a bigger configuration nightmare to worry about. What you should do is create the folder, go into the settings of the folder, and edit the security (thus breaking inheritance from the parent folder). Before even adding groups, you need to remove anyone that doesn't belong - namely entries like "YOU\Domain Users" - that gives access to anyone on your domain. Once you've cleaned out whomever shouldn't have access, you can add the users/groups that should. Problem solved.
Now, if that doesn't work, then it would seem to me that your SSRS instance is somehow granting everyone sysadmin access - check the Site Settings to see what users and groups are in the System Administrator role. Investigate any groups thoroughly - is BUILTIN\Administrators a sysadmin in SSRS? Check the group locally on the computer - is there another blanket domain group shown there?
If everyone on your domain has complete access to the SSRS instance, then your goal of "hiding" things is impossible.
On the "My site" feature of Sharepoint there is a "memberships" Web part that shows the distribution list that the user is a member of.
This is picking up several groups that we would rather not be shown e.g. some that have been set up for administrative purposes only.
Is there any way to control which groups are shown; ideally this would be using another AD group and setting that only members of this group are shown.
I'm fairly sure this won't be possible without a custom web part that is deployed instead of the official part. The reason the Exchange solution doesn't work is because it's going the wrong way (from group to member instead of member to group).
To deploy it you can look at feature stapling... you would need to update the existing sites as well.
This is not an easy answer. I don't believe there is an easy answer.
The best solution would be to set a Deny Access Right for the distribution lists in Active Directory; follow these steps:
1) Open Active Directory Users & Computers as an admin (any user with access to creating groups and modify distribution list security settings).
2) Go to the View menu and make sure that there's a check-box next to Advanced Features.
Create a new security group in Active Directory (call it HideFromSharePoint or something) and add the SharePoint Content Access account (in my case DOMAIN\sa_spcontent) to that group (has to match the account used in step 4).
3) For all of the distribution lists that you don't want to show up in SharePoint do the following:
3a) Open the distribution list and select the Security tab (Advanced Features must be checked for this tab to be shown).
3b) Click on Add and type in the name of the security group that you created in step 3 (HideFromSharePoint); click Check Names and click Ok.
3c) Under Permissions for HideFromSharePoint; check the Deny box next to Read (it's set to Allow by default) and click Ok and Ok again at the prompt.
You've just denied any members of the HideFromSharePoint group read access to the distribution list.
4) Go to SharePoint Central Administration; SharedServices1; User Profiles and Properties; Configure Profile Import and under Specify Account enter the credentials of the account that you added to the HideFromSharePoint-group in step 3. (For some reason if you leave this to using the Default Content Access account SharePoint will use some other account to access Active Directory and thereby being allowed access to the distribution lists. You could experiment with adding other SharePoint service accounts to the HideFromSharePoint group but I think it's safer to specify an account explicitly so that you know which account is accessing AD and importing the data.) Also make sure the "Import Connection" for your Active Directory is set to "Use Default Account" (thereby "inheriting" the account used for Profile Imports).
5) Go to SharePoint Central Administration; SharedServices1; User Profiles and Properties and click on Start full import. (You can't do an incremental import because nothing has changed for the users in terms of group membership; it's just the access rights that have changed.) After completion of the full import (click Refresh until "Import time:" says "Started full import at 11/25/2009 ##:## AM - Ended import at 11/25/2009 ##:## AM")
The distribution lists should now no longer show up under Memberships.
A couple of things to note:
You have to set the Deny Access Right explicitly and individually on all of the distribution lists that you don't want showing up in SharePoint. That's because the special AD-group "Authenticated Users" has read access to every object in the directory by default and explicit Allow Access Rights trump Deny Access Rights set (for example) at the organizational unit level.
While you could skip the step of setting up the HideFromSharePoint-group and set the Deny Access Right directory for the SharePoint Content Access account Active Directory administration best practices is to use a group when configuring security permissions. (Then you can add additional members to that group and have those denied read access too.)
You might have to wait a while (5+ minutes or so) between setting the the Deny Access Rights for the changes to replicate to all of you domain controllers. Otherwise the import might read from a domain controller where the Deny hasn't yet come into effect.
Be careful adding any other accounts to the HideFromSharePoint-group because this might break your distribution lists. For example; if Exchange can't read the groups mail won't work. As long as you just add the SharePoint Content Access Account you're safe.
Also (and this has nothing to do with SharePoint or the solution above) be aware that any user in your domain can fire up ADUC or a LDAP tool and see the members of your distribution lists that way. If you have anything "Top Secret" you need to experiment further with setting access controls in Active Directory.
I assume that your "memberships" web part is using the SharePoint people picker functionality internally.
If that's the case, then the following stsadm command should help you scope your AD lookup the way you want it:
stsadm -o setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath -path <name of OU> -url <URL name>
You could try editing the Distribution List on the Exchange Advanced tab, selecting the "Hide group from Exchange Address lists" check box.
I have not tested this but in theory it would stop the Distribution List from appearing the the list of groups.
Easy fix: add a JavaScript to the page on which those appear that targets and then hides the specific items by applying a CSS style.
I don't have an exact answer, but here's how I would think through the problem. Perhaps you have already answered some of these questions, but it might help to go through them again. I would look at the questions in the following order:
Is there an option in Active Directory to hide a group from SharePoint? (sounds like no)
Is there an option in SharePoint administration (either through stsadm or the actual administration site) to exclude certain users or groups in AD from SharePoint?
Is there a way to configure the web part to exclude certain users or groups from the web part itself?
Is the source code to the web part available such that you can compile the web part to exclude certain groups in the list?
Can you use javascript (as Josh mentioned) in conjunction with the webpart to hide the Distribution Lists from the webpart? (Here's a site with an example of how to use JavaScript to Hide SharePoint's Quick-Launch bar. Maybe that will help).
Those questions are in order from the widest scope and easiest to implement to the narrowest scope that is more difficult to implement. Obviously, you'd like to implement a solution that is easiest to implement, but perhaps you find yourself farther down in the list.
In the last two examples, the solution may appear quite complex, but you may be able to write code that references an XML file of sites to exclude. That way, if your list of Distribution Lists changes, all you have to do is edit the XML file and not edit the source code (of either the javascript or the webpart).
If there's not a simple solution, you'd have to make the painful choice of either 1) letting the problem remain or 2) implementing a hack that adds a dependency to your solution.
I think Distribution Groups that aren't security enabled don't show up in SharePoint. Have you checked AD to see if these groups are security enabled? This may be only for permissions purposes, so I could be wrong.
You will probably need to do a profile import before you see any changes.
You can turn off Distribution Lists entirely, which is what we are doing at my company. This is done by going to the Profile Services Policies in the SSP and disabling the Distribution List feature.
Now if you want to pick and choose the Distribution Lists, it's not that simple, but hopefully this will help someone.