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Office Integration with MOSS and ADFS
Previously, Office Integration with SharePoint secured by forms based authentication was not possible. The new ability of the Office client applications in Office 2007 SP2 to perform a forms login helps to solve this problem. You will need to install Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:39 PM by jimsim | 1 Comments


Attachment(s): release.zip

ADFSDiag has been updated again!
The updated tool can be found here . The attachment contains both 32 and 64 bit installers. A cool new feature - Claim Flow Analysis has been added to this version. I'll write up a quick blog on how to use this feature soon. Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 11:16 AM by jimsim | 2 Comments

Adding an ADFS Proxy Server
I'm going on an hour trying to get the screen shots formatted correctly. Live Writer is making them too small. I'll just attach the word document to the end if you want to see the pictures better. I'm done messing around with this for now! If you know Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:05 AM by jimsim | 2 Comments


Attachment(s): blog-adding proxy.doc

Interesting problem when adding an ADFS Proxy
I am working on a blog post (step-by-step) for the Proxy component and I ran into a problem yesterday that ran me around pretty good. We have seen this issue or variations of it on some support cases recently, so I thought the actual problem itself would Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:10 AM by jimsim | 1 Comments

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Using ADFS with Constrained Delegation
With ADFS - the authentication token issued is good for the web server with the agent installed. It is a local RPC token and cannot go off the box. With some additional configuration, you can configure ADFS to go off the box and delegate with a kerbitized Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:08 PM by jimsim | 1 Comments


Attachment(s): ou enumeration app.zip

Script to configure SharePoint to use ADFS authentication
More great tools by the ADFS team... Problems with the web.config files are one of the more common issues we see with ADFS/MOSS cases in PSS. Now there is a script with will make the modifications for you. It is located on the SharePoint team blog and Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:02 PM by jimsim | 0 Comments

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ADFS Diagnostic Tool
A huge thanks to the ADFS test team for developing such a great tool. Here is a quick "how to" The tool is very simple to use and provides a graphical UI. In order to perform distributed diagnosis, i.e. diagnose failures based on the configuration of Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:44 PM by jimsim | 9 Comments


Attachment(s): ADFSDiag.zip

Enabling debug logging for Claims Aware Applications
Place the following in your applications web.config file. Place this after the </system.net> section of the file. <system.diagnostics> <switches> <add name="WebSsoDebugLevel" value="15" /> </switches> <trace autoflush="true" Read More...

Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 2:16 PM by jimsim | 0 Comments

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Update on configuring MOSS as a claims aware application
====================================================================================== UPDATE: I'm not going to remove this blog or the original blog on the web.config entries - but I do want to make note that these web.config files should not be modified Read More...

Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 8:11 PM by jimsim | 1 Comments

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ADFS Certificates - SSL, Token Signing, and Client Authentication Certs
We are seeing quite a few support calls relating to certificate problems. Many of these are due to a misunderstanding of how the various certificates are used. ADFS/PKI issues are often very difficult to diagnose for the following reason – a lack of logging Read More...

Posted Monday, July 23, 2007 5:11 PM by jimsim | 3 Comments

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ADFS Claims Aware Virtual Lab - now online
I recently worked with the folks that handle the virtual labs for Technet. We corrected the certificate issues and some other minor issues. You can access the lab here . Event Overview: After completing this lab, you will be better able to set-up a trust Read More...

Posted Saturday, July 21, 2007 8:33 AM by jimsim | 0 Comments

Configuring SQL Reporting Services to use ADFS Authentication
Special thanks to Rahul Shelar and Sachin Mundra from the ADFS and SQL teams for working with me on this latest issue. Without their help, I would still be banging my head against the wall. I learned quite a bit about SSRS along the way and also learned Read More...

Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 5:51 PM by jimsim | 0 Comments

IFSEXT.DLL and the dialog box that is so very WRONG
Ifsext.dll is the ADFS ISAPI used by the Token based Web Agent...We have seen issues before where we either need to add this manually or move it to the top of the list on the application config section of IIS. Once you go the properties of a web site, Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:21 PM by jimsim | 1 Comments

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Setting up an ADFS environment - Part 2
This blog will build on my previous blog and walk you through the steps to getting your lab up and running. Let’s start on the Account side and install the Federation Server Service. Select add/remove programs, windows components, details of Active Directory Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:51 PM by jimsim | 4 Comments

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Setting up an ADFS lab environment - Part 1
In this blog, I’ll go though the PKI portion of setting up Trey Research and Adatum. While you can do this a number of different ways – I always setup and use a Standalone CA instead of generating self-signed certificates. In my opinion, setting up a Read More...

Posted Monday, February 26, 2007 7:54 AM by jimsim | 9 Comments

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