When i tried to remove a user completely from a site collection(Went to Site Groups--> groupId=0 and removed the user), the user got deleted from all the groups but he is still possessing permissions somewhere.
Any Ideas..?!!
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Go to http://siteUrl/_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0. From here, you can delete a user from the Site Collection.
It should be noted that the user will remain in the User Information List (dbo.UserInfo) table in the Content Database the Site Collection resides in. This is for referential integrity purposes. They are simply marked as deleted.
- Could it be possible that some users won't appear in this list either? (E.g.: I have the same user twice (same
DisplayName, but differentUserLogin), and I can see there's 2 using powershell$web.AllUsers, but in the SharePoint page, I see only the good one.Marc-André– Marc-André2017-09-26 13:22:54 +00:00Commented Sep 26, 2017 at 13:22
You can also try using the below powershell
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #Get the Root web $web = Get-SPWeb "http://sharepoint.crescent.com/sites/operations" #Supply the user account $UserAccount = "Global\DaveP" #Removes user from site collection Remove-SPUser -Identity $UserAccount -Web $Web -Confirm:$False 
It looks like the user is a site admin for this collection. You can check it in Center Administration or (if do not have access to central administration) with this simple code in csom.
using (var clientContext = new ClientContext("http://mysitecollection")) { var user = clientContext.Web.EnsureUser("user1"); clientContext.Load(user); clientContext.ExecuteQuery(); Console.WriteLine("IsSiteAdmin: {0}", user.IsSiteAdmin); } PS. Another option - grant Full Control for user in Wep Appliction\User Policy (you need to have access to Central Administration).
