Tag: Claims

User Cannot be Found When Opening List/Library Settings or Workflow Settings

Since a couple of months I have encountered the User cannot be found error a few times when accessing the List Settings or Library Settings. Show image User cannot be found In my case I encountered this error in the following scenarios: After switching the web application to Claims-based authentication; After migrating some sites to another SharePoint farm.

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Change the Active Directory User Password Through SharePoint

Give the user control to manage their password through SharePoint. When you want to use form based authentication for SharePoint authentication, one of the requirements could be that users can change their passwords from within SharePoint. Because this functionality is not OOTB available, you will need to create a custom web part or application page for it.

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