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Cannot Add External user to a sub-site group
Cannot Add External user to a sub-site group
- Within our SharePoint farm we have site collections with many sub-sites and are in the process of introductin ECTS into this environment. We have now come across a problem relating to the sub-sites. If we try to add an external user to a group created at the sub-site level and error is returned - "Value cannot be null. Parameter name:url". In the sharepoint logs we seem to have an associated error "The user does not exist or is not unique". Adding an external user to a group defined at the site collection level has no such problems.
Is this a limitation with the toolkit, or is there something we have configured incorrectly.
Answers
- What do you mean by groups defined at the site level and site collection level? All groups get created at the site collection level no matter where you are when you create them.
SharePoint Architect || My Blog- Marked As Answer byXue-Mei Chang-MSFTMSFT, ModeratorFriday, July 24, 2009 7:10 AM
- Clayton is right. Groups are just buckets of users. Users and groups are assigned permissions for each of the various securable objects (sites, libraries, items).
Does that clear up your problem?
--Paul Galvin, Arcovis
Microsoft MVP - SharePoint
Blogging @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/PaulGalvinsSharePointSpace
Twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/pagalvin- Marked As Answer byXue-Mei Chang-MSFTMSFT, ModeratorFriday, July 24, 2009 7:10 AM
All Replies
- What do you mean by groups defined at the site level and site collection level? All groups get created at the site collection level no matter where you are when you create them.
SharePoint Architect || My Blog- Marked As Answer byXue-Mei Chang-MSFTMSFT, ModeratorFriday, July 24, 2009 7:10 AM
- Clayton is right. Groups are just buckets of users. Users and groups are assigned permissions for each of the various securable objects (sites, libraries, items).
Does that clear up your problem?
--Paul Galvin, Arcovis
Microsoft MVP - SharePoint
Blogging @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/PaulGalvinsSharePointSpace
Twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/pagalvin- Marked As Answer byXue-Mei Chang-MSFTMSFT, ModeratorFriday, July 24, 2009 7:10 AM
