not sure if this is the right place to post dev question so please point me to the right place if its not...
I have a customer that gave a user permission to one specific list.
for example:
https://[tenant].sharepoint.com/sites/qa/permissions/lists/tasks
The user cannot browse to the site:
https://[tenant].sharepoint.com/sites/qa/permissions
But he can get to the list with no problems.
When we try to get the list items using REST api, that user gets "UnauthorizedAccessException" error.
Rest API url we tried:
https://[tenant].sharepoint.com/sites/qa/permissions/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('tasks')
https://[tenant].sharepoint.com/sites/qa/permissions/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('tasks')/items
Users with at least read permissions on the site /sites/qa/permissions have no problems getting to both these API endpoints.
Is there a different way to make the REST API work for users with permissions to just one list?
Is there a limitation of the REST API and it does not support that?
Thanks!
(I posted this on technet as well, and will update here if I get an answer there)
You can deactivate the site collection feature Limited-access user permission lockdown mode.
When this feature is activated, users with "Limited access" as permissions have reduced permissions which prevent them from accessing the list item/documents properties. This will cause the Unauthorized Exception error while accessing SharePoint artefacts.
So, go to your Site Settings > Site collection features
And Deactivate the Limited-access user permission lockdown mode feature.
After that, refresh and check.
More details - Enable or disable site collection features
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I have the app that uses OneDrive API (MS graph) to access OneDrive free accounts and OneDrive for business.
The app works fine.
In docs of the API i can see same API can be used also to access Sharepoint Online sites data.
How to do this? When i auth a user who has Sharepoint Online account with MS graph, there is only his drive (ondrive) but there is no his site listed.
How to get access to his sharepoint site too using same API?
I have found how to work with sites using the Graph API.
To get list of sites there is the call
GET /v1.0/sites/
Then use the SITEID to get list of drives (in fact, top level folders)
GET /v1.0/sites/SITEID/drives
Then to get contents of a drive user
GET /v1.0/sites/SITEID/drives/DRIVEID/root/children
And all next calls are same as for onedrive drive
However, there is the problem i still can not solve. How to create new top level folder (new drive on a site). There is no API call for this
I believe what you are looking for is the sites API. It lets you interact with a SharePoint site if you know the path or the id of the site. You can find the documentation for the api here:
https://dev.onedrive.com/resources/site.htm
There is no easy way to discover sites as of now. You can however search for a site. You can read more about it here:
https://dev.onedrive.com/sites/search.htm
This endpoint to get the list of sites is not working, so the last answer is not valid anymore.
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites
I haven't found a way to do this, the discovery of sites, without admin consent. If the admin consent flow is not a problem you can try this workaround, use the endpoint of groups to ask for the groups that the user is member of, and you can use the groups to get the document libraries of the user.
To get the groups:
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/memberOf
With the group id, you can use this endpoint:
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{group-id}/drive
So if someone know how to do the discovery of sites for a user without admin consent, please share.
EDIT: I'm not sure why my answer was deleted, my answer basically has 2 things:
I gave notice that one answer here is not valid anymore.
I gave a possible other solution to the problem.
We have an enterprise portal site based on sharepoint, and we want to open it up for anonymous access.
However, dynamics ax web parts do not display when logging in as anonymous user, even though the Guest account has been set up, and correctly configured.
Other web parts (e.g. an image slideshow) appear correctly for anonymous users. Yet, the Quicklaunch web part doesn't work. The Guest account was given full admin access for testing purposes, and also shows as being Online when anonymous users are viewing the site.
No audience was set for any of the web parts.
Any ideas, please?
Are you sure your anonymous user has enough permission to use / get the desired rendering for the web part ? I don't know these "dynamics ax web parts" but the empty rendering might be the result of an exception (permissions) which prevent the webpart from being rendered properly.
Also, didn't you set any audience on the webpart(s) ? Check in the tool pane, at the bottom, if the webpart is not configured to be displayed to specific groups / audiences only.
Kindly.
Are they blank or do you get access denied? If blank, do you use security trimmed controls in your master page. If access denied, are you using a cache? If you do IISReset, and make sure that the anonymous user is the first to connect to the page, does the web part work? If you're using impersonation, and Guest doesn't have access to the file system, perhaps it cannot read from the cache directory.
Is the ViewFormPagesLockDown feature disabled?
The issue has been resolved, there was another setting we had overlooked.
We forgot to enable Anonymous access in Enterprise Portal.
Thanks for your answers.
I am giving full control permission to a document under the shared library to a user that does not have any permission to the site. Sharepoint 2010 adds limited access to this user to the site itself, I believe so that user can login and see the the document.
However I can not login with this user's credentials.
What is wrong and what is the minimum access level that can be given to a user so that they only login, and see the documents they are supposed see?
You would have to provide Viewer rights to the user on document library so that user can open the document library and provide the user direct link to the view which you want to show him.
Second method is what ever rights you have provided is enough for the user just provide him direct link to the document Which would be <>/Documentname.extension
eg. http://sharepointserver:1234/shareddocuments/abc.docx
Limited access is a bit confusing because this permission level is only used to allow a user to traverse the site in order to access the items on which they have explicit (at least read) permission access. Traverse unfortunately doesn't mean browse the site, it's only used to avoid triggering the credentials prompt when accessing the ressource.
If it's just for a specific document, you should link straight to the document, like Ashutosh Singh suggested
Otherwise, if there are no sensitive information, you can add this user in the dedicated visitor group, that will grant him enough access to browse up to the relevant library and access the document.
Another solution is to create a document workspace sub site (with unique permission) and set this user as the owner / contributor. By doing so you'll allow him to have more freedom in his own little shell. While this seems like a big job, it's only a few click away and a few seconds / minutes of configuration if you have enough right on the site collection (which I presume is the case since you are able to give full right to an external user on a specific document).
Hope that helped :)
All,
I'm configuring Sharepoint to use forms authentication with LDAP/Active Directory. I'm new to Sharepoint, so if this is obvious, please point me in the right direction.
Whenever I attempt to log in with a bad account or password, I get the very friendly (and correct) error message,
The server could not sign you in. Make
sure your user name and password are
correct, and then try again.
... which implies that Sharepoint is able to communicate with AD. If I log in with a valid account, I get a page that says:
alt text http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/6053/sharepointerror.png
(I added the grey bar to cover up the login name)
Any suggestions? The account I'm logging in with is an administrator and has been granted full control in central administration.
Also, interesting note: If I click the "sign in as a different user" link, and attempt to sign in using with the same credentials I just used, the site just redirects back to the login page, with no error or status message. If I then manually enter the site url, it again shows the "Error: Access Denied" page. Argh.
Go to site action of the actual site and add user in the format of
:loginid
It should resolve and show it underlined then try login in back to application that should fix it.
Your AD connection is working fine just need to add to sharepoint users list
yourprovider:userid
Yourprovider name is the name you gave to the user provider in web config
And you can add this user from parent site that is windows protected and you have all
I suppose it's sharepoint site security issue.
I'm getting the same error when trying to enter Site Settings page with a user that has a lack of permissions.
If you have at least one user that can access the Site Settings page, I suggest you to go to Site Actions/Site Settings/Users and Permissions/People and grops then click New button and add a user from AD to an appropriate group, eg. Team Site Members.
You have made connection with Ad and its working fine. So that you got error, when you try to login with invalid user id.
But you have missed one step in above scenario.
You need to give the permission for all AD users in your SharePoint site. The better way is to create a user group in AD (it may already there) which included all the users and add this user group in your SharePoint site with read permission.
Here's the scenareio:
I have a single site collection, with the publishing infrastucture feature activated. Seveal levels below this I have a publishing site with the publishing features turned on. I also have unique permissions for this site.
The problem is that no one except site collection administrators can "Create Page". I have given the individuals everything including full control, and they still can not create pages. They can edit pages, but not create.
Am I doing something wrong? What is the proper way to set up the taxonomy of a site? I am trying to create a hierarcy to match my organization and mostly am using unique permissions on each site/subsite. This is working ok, until i needed a publishing site, but I don't want him to be a site collection admin. I would appreciate any help or ideas with how to make the publishing site work as I have it, or guide me on the proper way to lay out the site.
The fact that you are using Publishing features shouldn't have an effect on permissions. Publishing (for the most part) really has more of an effect on how edits are handled - i.e. immediately deployed or checked in and published at a later point. That's oversimplifying it - but back to your question.
Most likely - what is happening is that you have not given the user permission to the library where the template is that they need access to in order to create the page. I'm 99% sure that is what is happening here. Makes sense - they have the rights to the site - and permissions to edit the pages that exist - but creating a page requires them to access a new file - in a different library. If they don't have permissions to that template library - you get the access denied error.
When your user tries to create a page, they get an access denied error page correct? Copy the URL of that page, and examine it closely. It should reveal the location of the template folder they are trying to access but don't have permissions for. Read-only access to that template library should get your user the access they need.
One other recommendation - check out the access checker web part in Codeplex. http://accesschecker.codeplex.com/. This web part is loaded as a solution and allows you to display a hierarchical list of the sites that a specific user has permissions to. VERY helpful in confirming that you have given the permissions you thought you had.
Finally - in terms of permissions best practices - I think you are doing fine. You've gotten a little frustrated because you took a different path on a site (i.e. publishing) and it's behaving differently. But nothing is wrong. I've been there:) You really have two options w/ SP permissions - SP based groups (visitors, members, owners etc) or pulling in AD groups. Either way, you'll be making the same decision regarding unique or inherited permissions. You either use the same permissions as the parent site - or use unique permissions. HTH