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Using Yammer Open Graph in .NET - Part 2
Posted
7 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
7
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In the first part of this series - http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2014/05/29/using-yammer-open-graph-in-net.aspx - I described how to create a Yammer Open Graph object (OGO). In this posting I'll explain how to create a new post in the...
Using Yammer Open Graph in .NET - Part 1
Posted
7 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
12
Comments
I've already written about using the Yammer APIs from a .NET client application here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2013/10/05/using-the-yammer-api-in-a-net-client-application.aspx. This post is the next logical step in that journey...
SAML Support for SharePoint-Hosted Apps with ADFS 3.0
Posted
7 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
7
Comments
This is another case where I'm just passing information along here, based on the great work of others. As you probably know, we did not have a good story for SharePoint-hosted apps in web application that uses SAML authentication with ADFS 2.0. However...
Changes To Know About When Your SharePoint STS Token Signing Certificate Expires - the Impact to Your High Trust Applications
Posted
7 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
1
Comment
This is a another follow up to my earlier post on changing the token signing certificate for the SharePoint STS as described here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2014/05/06/updating-trust-between-onprem-farms-and-acs-for-apps-when-your-sharepoint...
Missing Context Token in Low Trust App with SharePoint 2013 - Part 2
Posted
7 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
1
Comment
As I noted in my first post on this topic - http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2013/05/28/missing-context-token-in-low-trust-app-with-sharepoint-2013.aspx - you may find yourself in a low trust app without a context token, which basically leaves...
Create a List in the Host Web When Your SharePoint App is Installed...and Remove it from the Recent Stuff List
Posted
7 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
10
Comments
This is one of those questions that I've seen asked a lot but for some reason I've never really seen anyone post an answer to it. I did a quick Bing search before writing this post but didn't really see anything up there so I'm going to...
Updating Trust Between OnPrem Farms and ACS for Apps When Your SharePoint STS Token Signing Certificate Expires
Posted
7 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
4
Comments
For those of you who are "in the app way" with SharePoint 2013 (no, not a lot different from being "in the pregnant way", as they say), you'll reach that point sooner or later where the token signing certificate for your SharePoint...
Claim Type Exceptions with Custom Claims Providers in SharePoint 2013
Posted
8 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
4
Comments
This issue applies to SharePoint 2010 as well but...suppose you have created a custom claims provider and one of the things you want to do is to have some custom claim types that you use. What I mean by custom claim types is just that they are not one...
More Info on an Old Friend - the Custom Claims Provider, Uri Parameters and EntityTypes in SharePoint 2013
Posted
8 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
4
Comments
Back to oldie but a goodie - the custom claims provider for SharePoint. I believe this applies to SharePoint 2010 as well but honestly I have only tested what I'm about to describe on SharePoint 2013 and don't have the bandwidth to go back and...
Enhancing the Yammer Search Results and Messages Samples and Deserialization
Posted
9 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
6
Comments
Just as kind of strange coincidence, I was in working on some Yammer message JSON goo and realized that there were actually a couple of other important data elements that comes down in the JSON payload when you get a collection of messages from REST....
Integrating Yammer and SharePoint 2013 Search Results
Posted
9 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
9
Comments
This post is in response to a question I get pretty frequently when talking about Yammer. The question that many folks want to know is "how can I crawl my Yammer content from SharePoint?" Well, unfortunately you can't, and I have no trick...
Programmatically Adding A Trusted Identity Token Issuer to a Web Application Zone in SharePoint 2010 and 2013
Posted
10 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
4
Comments
Seems like I haven't had a chance to write a good SharePoint / SAML claims kind of article in a while. I was happily plugging away on some code this weekend for a scenario I haven't done before so I thought I would go ahead and post it here for...
Using Impersonation with the Yammer APIs
Posted
10 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
6
Comments
One of the things that isn't particularly well known about the Yammer APIs is that its OAuth infrastructure does support a form of impersonation (at least that's how I describe it). This can be extraordinarily useful when you need to access data...
Some More Advice When Using the Yammer APIs with .NET
Posted
10 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
4
Comments
I wrote this post a little while back here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2013/10/05/using-the-yammer-api-in-a-net-client-application.aspx , and I think I'm going to have to fall on the sword just a bit because I have some code in there...
Update to Guidance for Patching AppFabric on SharePoint 2013 Distributed Cache Servers
Posted
10 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
12
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For those of you who had the "pleasure" (okay, slight sarcasm there) of watching me in the SharePoint Ignite materials talk about distributed cache, you may recall that our guidance at the time SharePoint 2013 shipped was that you should not...
What You Must Know if Using Azure Active Directory for SSO with Yammer
Posted
11 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
3
Comments
I posted a while back regarding how to configure Yammer and Azure Active Directory (AAD) together so that you could use it for single sign on to your Yammer network - http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2014/01/08/using-azure-active-directory...
Another BCS Hybrid Tip - Fixing "The Type name for the Secure Store provider is not valid" Error
Posted
11 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
5
Comments
Here's another error that are actually pretty likely to see if you are setting up BCS hybrid. When you configure your BCS connection in o365 to connect to your on premises data source, one of the things you need to configure is the security that's...
Oh No - Your BCS Model Doesn't Show Up When You Create a Content Source For BDC
Posted
11 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
4
Comments
First let me point out that I gratuitously co-mingled the terms "BCS" and "BDC" in the title because I honestly never know what to call this anymore (I've heard the marketing language before but it just ain't stickin')...
Using Azure Active Directory for Single Sign On with Yammer
Posted
11 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
28
Comments
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...
Setting Up BCS Hybrid Features End to End In SharePoint 2013
Posted
11 months ago
by
Steve Peschka
9
Comments
For those of you who will be attending SharePoint Conference 2014 ( www.sharepointconference.com ), I'm going to be teaching a half-day course after the three main days with Bill Baer and some other folks on SharePoint Hybrid features. This is firming...
You Get More Results in the Query Builder for a Web Part Than When the Web Part is Rendered on the Page in SharePoint 2013
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Peschka
5
Comments
I’ve had this issue happen to me a while back and then I saw two other people have the same problem in the last couple of weeks so I decided to do a quick post on this. The scenario usually manifests itself something like this: you are working on...
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...
The Hour of Code 2013
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Peschka
1
Comment
I try to not get into endorsing this thing or that on this blog, but there is something generating interest this week that I think is pretty cool, and it's called the Hour of Code. The idea is to get students (or really anyone that wants to know more...
Debugging SharePoint Apps That Are Hosted In Windows Azure Web Sites
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Peschka
11
Comments
Today, I'm going to be the lazy human I'm so frequently accused of being by my somewhat faithful dog Shasta, and bring together two posts written by two other folks into one uber "ain't it cool how this all works together post" by me. Here are the two...
Tool to Get Token Signing Certificate Out of ACS
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Peschka
4
Comments
I continue to be regularly annoyed when I want to go snag the token signing certificate out ACS for use with federating to my various projects, like SharePoint sites. I've written in a couple or more blog postings about how you go to your tenant, find...
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