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Using Azure Active Directory for Single Sign On with Yammer
Posted
11 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
28
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This is a pretty interesting topic that I think is going to be gaining momentum moving forward. As many of you know, when you create a new o365 tenant you automatically get an Azure Active Directory (AAD) instance provisioned for you at the same time...
Configuring Office Web Apps in SharePoint 2013
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
29
Comments
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...
Configuring SharePoint 2010 and ADFS v2 End to End
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
62
Comments
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...
Using the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
7
Comments
The developer dashboard is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 that is design to provide additional performance and tracing information that can be used to debug and troubleshoot issues with page rendering time. The dashboard is turned off by default, but...
Working with Large Lists in SharePoint 2010 - List Throttling
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
32
Comments
List throttling is one of the new options in SharePoint 2010 that enable to set limits on how severely users can put the beat down on your servers. In a nutshell, what it does is allow you to set a limit for how many rows of data can be retrieved for...
"No User Profile Application Available" Mystery in SharePoint 2010
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
28
Comments
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...
Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy for SharePoint 2013 Hybrid Features
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Peschka
16
Comments
This is a topic that’s generated a lot of interest over the last couple of months and I’m happy to report that I was recently able to utilize the new Web Application Proxy (WAP) features of Windows Server 2012 R2 to act as a reverse proxy...
Using the Yammer API in a .NET Client Application
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Peschka
53
Comments
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...
Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
43
Comments
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 Query Rules, Result Types and Display Templates for a Custom Search Sales Report in SharePoint 2013
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
14
Comments
<Standard Disclaimer: Blog formatting sucks. Do your eyes a favor - download the attachment, which is the Word document version of this.) UPDATE: a few things have changed for RTM so I am updating this post and adding the artifacts I used to create...
Setting the Login Token Expiration Correctly for SharePoint 2010 SAML Claims Users
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
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...
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...
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...
More TroubleShooting Tips for High Trust Apps on SharePoint 2013
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
12
Comments
Hey, I'm an app guy, I like doing dev, but honestly - I may go hoarse screaming at my computer if I have to track down one more "The issuer of the token is not a trusted issuer" problem with my new SharePoint apps. To try and help you save your own voice...
Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model - Part 1
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
6
Comments
SharePoint 2010 introduces a new client side object model (hereafter referred to as the “client OM”) for retrieving data. It supports a subset of functionality contained in the server side object model, but generally speaking gives you ready access to...
Logical Architecture Guidance for SharePoint 2013 Part 1
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Peschka
26
Comments
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...
Using SharePoint Apps with SAML and FBA Sites in SharePoint 2013
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
21
Comments
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...
Writing A Custom Forms Login Page for SharePoint 2010 Part 2
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
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...
The given key was not present in the dictionary Error When Validating User Accounts
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
6
Comments
This is a problem that I’ve seen come up a few times now, with a particularly nasty side effect for sites using SAML claims with ADFS. Where I first saw this problem was when I created a new farm and I went into add a service account. I typed in...
Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model - Part 5
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
8
Comments
The previous posts in this series have been pretty list-centric. In this posting we’re going to delve down a different path in exploring the client object model and talk about security. The client OM actually provides great support for working with the...
Another "Could not load file or assembly" Error Resolved
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Peschka
5
Comments
These silly .NET Framework errors are the ones that really bug me, you spend SOOOOO much time trying to track down these things but the error messages are so vague that it's just an exercise in frustration most times. Here's another one of my favorites...
Using Azure Multi-Factor Authentication With Azure Active Directory and SharePoint 2013
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Peschka
1
Comment
Today I’m going to look at one of the new and interesting security features the Azure team is providing called Multi Factor Authentication (MFA). What it enables you to do is to use a set of services provided by the Azure team for a second form...
Configuring ADFS Trusts For Multiple Identity Providers with SharePoint 2010
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Steve Peschka
9
Comments
Hey all, on Thanksgiving eve I've finally finished something I've been wanting to do for a while, and been getting questions on for a while. There are often scenarios where you need to have a trust from the ADFS server to which SharePoint authenticates...
Integrating SharePoint 2013 with Azure Active Directory – Part 1 Configuration
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Peschka
19
Comments
NOTE: I updated this 10/9/2013 because some of the Url references I had below had changed between when I did it (when AAD was in preview) and now (RTM). The Azure Active Directory (AAD) team has made the first release of their product. Along the way...
When Do Your Apps Need AppRegNew.aspx in SharePoint 2013
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Peschka
8
Comments
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...
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