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...

Some of you playing with claims authentication may get what seems like a strange error. Youv'e set everything up on your STS and SharePoint, you try and hit the site, and you get a big error and stack dump that says "The root of the certificate chain...

As part of some claims based authentication work I've been doing recently, I've come across two very important constraints. They are manageable constraints, but they are things that you need to know about in advance of setting up and configuring your...

For various reasons getting a claims based authentication web application up and working correctly with both an identity claim and a role claim has been troublesome to say the least. So I'm going to share here the steps just around creating the claims...

One of the great new features around Search in SharePoint 2010 is the concept of query suggestions. There are pre-query and post-query suggestions. A pre-query suggestion is a type-ahead feature that appears in the search box on the search page. As you...

One of the interesting problems I was working on last week had to do with some strange permissions errors on a claims auth site. Part of the difficulty in troubleshooting the situation is that we were not / are not enumerating the claims that SharePoint...

User Context is a feature of FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 that is analagous to using audiences with search results. As you start to test this out you may find that within the site collection you can create FAST keywords and document promotions and...

I've been doing a lot of digging around this topic this morning for my Search Explorer for Developers application (more on that in a future post). In general it can be kind of tough to get search service applications and proxies when working without an...

Hey folks, here's a problem that keeps coming up over and over again, and I'll admit it confused me for some time as well. The refiner web part, for those of you who aren't familiar with it, is used on the search results page in SharePoint 2010. It's...

As we all know, sometimes we just get stuck trying to figure out how to get from point A to point B when working through some SharePoint coding scenario. One of the things that comes up more frequently in this regardin in SharePoint 2010 has to do with...

For those of you who have access to one of the interim builds of SharePoint 2010, specifically 4730.1010, you will very likely find claims to be pretty much non-functional. Like after everything is set up and you hit the SharePoint site, you are taken...