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It is important to remember that RunWithElevatedPrivileges requires its own SPWeb. If you reuse a existing SPWeb, you won't run elevated, but with the initial context. For Example, the following function is intended to perform some actions on the sub sites for the given site. The access requires elevated permissions: This function will not work: private void DoStuff (SPWeb web) { SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(() => { foreach (SPWeb w in web.Webs) {  // Still running under logged in user credential } }); } but this will: private void DoStuffProperly(SPWeb web) { SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(() => { using (SPSite site = new SPSite(web.Url)) { using (SPWeb w = site.OpenWeb()) { // Running under the application pool credential } } }); }

My development environment was displaying my name as 'DOMAIN\LOGIN' instead of 'DisplayName'. I found the solution in  this  post - a simple one-line PowerShell command: Get-SPUser -Web http://myweb.com | Set-SPUser -SyncFromAD

I recently had to load some seed data for a SharePoint site that required the population of some images into an asset library. After a lot of playing and experimenting, I eventually settled on the pattern of 1. Add the files to an image folder in the Style Library 2. Reading in the source file into a byte array 3. then loading the array into a new file in the target location. Its a little convoluted, but it was the only solution that met my requirement. I then populated a dictionary with a name/value pair that mapped to the columns in my content type. Here are the methods I used:      public void UploadFile(SPWeb webParam, string fileUrl, SPList list, Dictionary<string, string> parameters)         {             try             {                               using (SPSite site = new SPSite(webParam.Url))                 {                     using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())                     {                         //SPList list = web.Lists.TryGetList(l