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How do I impersonate a user
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system roles/administrators and members of the 'allow impersonate users' role can impersonate users on the website please note this is a highly sensitive task and should only be done with users knowledge or in a uat/dev environment activate v8 and 7 5 3d introduced an extra security feature where the 'allow impersonate users' role must also specify a parameter called 'availableimpersonateusers' that must specify the users that the user can impersonate for example, in uat this may specify that only uat or test users can be impersonated note this limitation does not apply to administrators in v7 or order you can connect to the web site using one of the following https \[server]/activate/default aspx?user=domain\samaccountname for example, https //localhost/activate/default aspx?user=domain\wevans https \[server]/activate/default aspx?user=samaccountname for example, https //localhost/activate/default aspx?user=wevans in v8 or newer the following urls are used instead https \[server]/users/\[samaccountname]/impersonate https //localhost/users/wevans/impersonate https \[server]/users/\[upn]/impersonate https //localhost/users/wevans\@test com/impersonate