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Configuring SharePoint 2010 and ADFS v2 End to End
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over 4 years ago
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Steve Peschka
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In this post I’m going to do an end-to-end walk through on how to configure SharePoint 2010 and ADFS v2 together to use SAML claims authentication. I’ll includes steps and PowerShell scripts to demonstrate and will try and bring all of the...
Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
43
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Hopefully folks are starting to get some use out of the multitude of SharePoint 2010 postings I’ve been tossing up here. This is a new one that I was a little hesitant to put together…given my history in SharePoint 2007 I don’t want...
Using the Yammer API in a .NET Client Application
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Peschka
53
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UPDATE 12/17/2013: The authentication process Yammer uses to issue an access code changed recently. If you have been getting a 404 error when executing the 3rd line of code previously described below to get the token, then read the updated step 3 below...
"No User Profile Application Available" Mystery in SharePoint 2010
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over 4 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
28
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Here's another in what seems like a growing list of permissions gotchas in SharePoint 2010. Assume if you will, you are a crack developer and building a custom application for SharePoint 2010. You're writing code on your development server, which has...
SharePoint 2010 Forms Based Authentication Configuration Manager
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
27
Comments
I found myself getting really tired of constantly modifying configuration files when setting up forms based auth (FBA) in SharePoint 2010. There's even more work now then there was in the previous release, because now we have an additional web.config...
Configuring Office Web Apps in SharePoint 2013
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over 2 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
29
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As you know or will soon learn, Office Web Apps in SharePoint 2013 is no longer a service application that is part of your SharePoint farm. Instead it is installed as a separate farm, which provides a number of advantages, such as reuse between multiple...
Planning the Infrastructure Required for the new App Model in SharePoint 2013
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
26
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SharePoint 2013 brings with it a brand new application model, which we euphemistically refer to as the “app model” or “cloud app model”. While it brings a whole new set of opportunities from a development perspective, it also carries...
Logical Architecture Guidance for SharePoint 2013 Part 1
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Peschka
26
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Okay, I'm going to start out by saying I don't how many parts there will be to this little series, but they will come as content worth talking about shows up. Friends...in today's post I'm just going to cover some basic design principals about SharePoint...
SharePoint 2010 Content Organizer Part 3 - The Drop Off Library
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over 5 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
19
Comments
As described in the first post in this series, the Drop Off Library is created when you activate the Content Organizer feature. As soon as you configure the Content Organizer to start routing documents (which, actually it does when you activate the feature...
PSConfig Fails with Missing / Required Error Message After Applying CU or Service Pack in SharePoint 2010
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
33
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I had this happen with a CU recently, and I saw someone that had the same problem with SP1. You download and install some patch - a CU or service pack. The final step after installation is to run psconfig on each server in the farm. However, psconfig...
Create An Easy PDF Preview for Search Results in SharePoint 2013
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over 2 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
17
Comments
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...
Make Sure You Know This About SharePoint 2010 Claims Authentication - Sticky Sessions Are REQUIRED
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over 3 years ago
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Steve Peschka
17
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Hey folks, I’m here to tell you that I too now have my own story of getting burned by an anomaly of using claims authentication that I wish would have been clearer to me. This is such a fundamental aspect of deploying it that I want to make sure...
Free Developer Search Tool for SharePoint 2010 Search and FAST Search for SharePoint
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over 4 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
16
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I've been working on a developer tool off and on for months now to help working with the query engine in SharePoint 2010. It's come far enough along that it's probably ready for some folks to start using it. I've been debating about putting it up on CodePlex...
Setting the Login Token Expiration Correctly for SharePoint 2010 SAML Claims Users
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over 4 years ago
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Steve Peschka
17
Comments
As I was working on understanding the process for expiring login cookies recently, I found what seemed like a pretty big problem. For SAML claims users, once they got their login cookie from ADFS, they would never seem to time out. Meaning they could...
Writing A Custom Forms Login Page for SharePoint 2010 Part 1
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over 4 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
15
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In SharePoint 2007 writing a custom login page for a forms based authentication (FBA) site was not too terribly hard. There were a few things to know, most of which weren’t SharePoint specific, and some tips to have your login form take on the look...
Writing A Custom Forms Login Page for SharePoint 2010 Part 2
Posted
over 4 years ago
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Steve Peschka
14
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NEW PREFACE TO THIS POSTING, AND OPEN COMMENT TO THE SITE OWNER: Since the blog site was upgraded to the latest version of whatever the blazes this thing is, the formatting has stunk like a pig on the 4th of July. I usually spend a fair amount of time...
Using the New SharePoint 2010 Ratings Feature in Search
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over 5 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
17
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In this blog I thought I’d show how to use some of the cool new features in SharePoint 2010 with some of our old favorites from SharePoint 2007 to create an interesting search results experience. We’re going to do all of this WITHOUT WRITING ANY CODE...
Writing a Custom Claims Provider for SharePoint 2010 - Part 1: Claims Augmentation and Registering Your Provider
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
15
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This is the first in a series of blogs in which I'll talk about writing a custom claims provider. First, it's probably worth understanding a little background on what a claims provider is and why we might want to use one. A claims provider in SharePoint...
How to Create Multiple Claims Auth Web Apps in a Single SharePoint 2010 Farm
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
17
Comments
The question has been coming up more frequently lately about how does one configure multiple web apps that use claims authentication in SharePoint 2010. The primary point of confusion usually comes around the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer. As I noted in...
Replacing the out of box Name Resolution in SharePoint 2010 - Part 2
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
13
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A while ago I posted an entry on how to configure your custom claims provider to replace the out of the box claims provider ( http://blogs.technet.com/speschka/archive/2010/04/28/how-to-override-the-default-name-resolution-and-claims-provider-in- sharepoint...
SharePoint 2010 Content Organizer Part 1 - A Cool New Feature for Managing Your Content
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
14
Comments
The Content Organizer feature is a new routing feature that extends, enhances, and makes more broadly available the routing engine used in the Records Center site template from SharePoint 2007. It not only allows you to automatically route documents to...
One of the request inputs is out of range Error with Azure Table Storage
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
12
Comments
I wanted to document this error here because I recently went nearly blind trying to solve it, and I never did find the exact cause when Bing'ing for it. Unfortunately it's a pretty generic error so it may very well have been out there, but it seems there...
Using SharePoint Apps with SAML and FBA Sites in SharePoint 2013
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
21
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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...
Searching Property Bags in SharePoint 2013
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
13
Comments
This is one of the 1001 or great new things about search in SharePoint 2013. In fact if I had the copious free time that would actually be kind of a fun challenge, writing a 1001 new things I like about Search, but I digress. In this particular case,...
Using Dreamweaver and Design Manager with SharePoint 2013
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
15
Comments
SharePoint 2013 includes a number of new features to make it easier than ever before to style and publish web sites. One of those features is Design Manager; it allows you to do things like create different channels for your content – such as one...
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