Saturday, May 29, 2010

Difference between SPWeb.Users, SPWeb.AllUsers, SPWeb.SiteUsers

MOSS 2007 offers 3 different user collections in the SPWeb object.
  • SPWeb.Users
    This represents the collection of users or user objects who have been explicitly assigned permissions in the Web site . This does not return users who have access through a group.

    Example (C#):
    SPUserCollection users = web.Users;
  • SPWeb.AllUsers
    This gives us the collection of user objects who are either members of the site collection or who have atleast navigated to the site as authenticated members of a domain group in the site.

    Example (C#):
    SPUserCollection users = web.AllUsers;
  • SPWeb.SiteUsers
    This is the collection of all users that belong to the site collection.

    Example (C#):
    SPUserCollection users = web.SiteUsers;
These terms tend to confuse us unless we really know the differences between each one of them.

So I thought it would be nice to write an article stating which is what. Hope this information helps you SharePoint 2007 developers.

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