Hey all, just spreading the word, in case you have not heard - after taking a one-year hiatus, the SharePoint Conference will be coming back early next year. Please visit http://sharepointconference.com/ to see all the details, and hopefully I'll see...

This post is yet another in my series of "how long of a post title I can come up with and still not convey the actual essence of the post" contest. I'm sure you've all been following along at home and are thrilled to see another entry, but it was either...

Should you decide that you want to write low trust apps for an on-premises SharePoint 2013 farm, there are a number of hoops you should expect to jump through (NOTE: this assumes the SPNs for your web apps are already configured in the MsolServicePrincipal...

As I was going round and round a few weeks ago trying to figure out why my custom claims provider was not working as I anticipated, one of our great developers (Chris R.) gave me a list of things to look at to try and diagnose the issue. After spending...

In Part 1 of this series, we went through how to configure SharePoint to use ACS and Azure Active Directory (AAD) as our Identity Provider. Once that is complete you will have a working end to end solution in which you can authenticate, get authorized...

The Azure Active Directory (AAD) team has made the first release of their product. Along the way they’ve added functionality that allows you to configure AAD as an identity provider in ACS. With these features, AAD and ACS become a natural combination...

Kind of a long wordy title, what does it really mean? When you are creating a custom converter for Windows Phone or WinRT, you create a class that inherits from IValueConverter and implement a Convert method. In that method you're given (among other things...

Today's topic seems straightforward enough, right? There's lots of documentation all over the interwebs about how to do this so should be a piece of cake. Well, as it turns out, when I did this a couple of weeks ago I found that there is a lot of missing...

Someone was asking today about how to create a managed property at the site or site collection level that is refinable and sortable. When you go into Schema Management at the site collection level you may notice that you can create new managed properties...

Let me preface this posting by saying a couple of things: This is not going to be a "how do I create a BCS hybrid connection to my on-premises farm"; there is a whitepaper coming in the next month or so that will be lengthy and loaded with details...

I ran across this problem today, which was caused by something that's easy to forget so I thought I would share the issue and resolution. I was in central admin and trying to create a new Encryption Key for the Secure Store Service. When I tried to generate...

I had the occasion to need to figure out accessing the Managed Metadata Store using the new client object model libraries for SharePoint 2013. In snooping around, I found virtually no documentation on this topic whatsoever, other than generic boilerplate...

I've had this question from a few people and never had a chance to track down the answer until today. I've written a few times already about query rules and how awesome they are: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=%22query%20rules...

I had a nice question today from my good friend Bala, who was working on some app stuff and talking to me about AppRegNew.aspx. We have a nice article on how to use this here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj860570.aspx, which is talking about...

I've been seeing this error more and more recently, both inside and outside the walls of my employers. The Directory Links across partitions are not allowed error seems to routinely crop up when you have created an OData source with Visual Studio and...

We ran across an interesting wrinkle in some code last week where someone was using the EnsureUser API, which is a method off of the SPWeb. Yes, we are talking about full trust code again, something which we haven't talked about as much lately but which...

My friend JP is hard at work finding all the port openings we need that haven't gotten completely documented yet, and here's a new one. (By the way, these all ARE working their way into TechNet, it will just take a month or two probably for them to find...

This is effectively just a "retweet" but I wanted to call this out because it was very helpful recently solving a problem in what I think is an important scenario - using ACS for federated identity management with an application hosted in the new Azure...

This post is in follow up to a previous post about setting up an OAuth trust between two farms: http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2012/07/23/setting-up-an-oauth-trust-between-farms-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx . The primary reason for writing that...

My good friend JP Poissant found a little configuration glitch the other day when building out a new farm. He found that when he tried to start the distributed cache service running on a second server in the farm, it failed to start. The service was listed...

I had the unfortunate need to understand the licensing model a little bit better recently for enabling editing in Office Web Apps. It's a little bit of a circuitous route so I thought I would just quickly detail it here. In short you want to: Create...

I saw this question flying around the other day and thought it was kind of interesting. Someone was asking about the cool new thumbnail previews you get for items in search results in SharePoint 2013. They really liked how Microsoft Office documents work...

Hopefully by now everyone has heard about the new app model in SharePoint 2013. There’s a lot of documentation out there about it so I won’t go into exactly what it is. What you should know is that it’s the preferred model for developing...

One of the nice enhancements in SharePoint 2013 BCS world is that SharePoint can now consume OData in BDC applications. There are a couple of gaps I ran across recently though when going through this process so I thought I'd cover them here in case anyone...

My friend Bryan asked me a good question the other day about how to create a display template that would do its rendering thing, but then run his own javascript function afterwards. After doing some snooping around, one of my other buddies Jesus was good...