Category: Permissions

Consider the following scenario:   You break permission inheritance on a list and give some users permission to only that list. The users can browse to the list, but when they try to add an item to the list or edit an existing item, the following error occurs:   The server was unable to save

I’ve been over this concept with customers and support engineers so many times, that I’m not sure why I haven’t posted about it before. My colleague Adam posted on this topic a while back, but I wanted to expand on that a bit. The Setup: Let’s say you have a SharePoint (2013, 2016, 2019, Subscription

This was a special situation where most of the site appeared to work, but certain links under Site Settings would fail with 403 Forbidden. For example: Themes Master Pages Solutions Composed looks List Templates Most document libraries Actually, in some cases, the page request would result in Access Denied, and redirect the user to the

This post is the third part of a series on the “Check Permissions” function. It’s focused on Trusted Provider authentication aka: SAML-claims. The way “Check Permissions” works varies by authentication method. For Windows or FBA auth, see my other posts: Windows-Claims Authentication: https://joshroark.com/sharepoint-troubleshooting-check-permissions-windows-auth/ Forms-based Authentication (FBA): https://joshroark.com/sharepoint-check-permissions-and-external-tokens-fba/ Notes: I’ll be talking about Active Directory Federation

What are the Super User and Super Reader accounts for? This is explained pretty well on Docs here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/SharePoint/administration/configure-object-cache-user-accounts In general, they are used in the process of making SharePoint Publishing sites (any site using the publishing features) render quickly and efficiently. Please keep in mind that these accounts are not actually required to be

Update 11/16/22: I’ve just tested this in the latest (November 2022) builds of both SharePoint 2019 (16.0.10392.20000) and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (16.0.15601.20226). The problem still occurs in those builds. This is a good one. It appears to be both random and intermittent (it’s actually neither), and is extremely hard to track down. It’s known

  There are a couple known issues with user profile pictures when your Mysite web application uses Trusted Provider (ADFS / SAML) authentication. Symptoms There are two different known symptoms with the same cause and solution: #1When running User Profile Synchronization, nothing is imported or exported. In the Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) client, we see