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...

Something you may not have thought of around using SAML claims is the impact on the Audiences feature in SharePoint 2010. By default we will only import users from directories like Active Directory and a few LDAP sources. The problem is that the account...

Hey all, this question came up recently about what do I do if I have a web application that is using Windows classic authentication and I want to change it to use Windows claims? It could be that you started in Windows classic and now want to move to...

This is a companion posting to my blog about how to use the client OM with a site that is secured with FBA (http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/06/03/using-the-client-object-model-with-a-forms-based-auth-site-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx). ...

One of the questions I’ve seen a few times since my “mega-posting” on the client object model, is how to use it with a SharePoint site that is secured with forms based authentication. There are actually a couple of ways you could do...

UPDATE: I updated the application attachment for this posting. Before it would only let you toggle a claims provider for a zone if that zone was using SAML claims. In retrospect that limitation didn't make a lot of sense, so now it lets you toggle a claims...

This is a topic that continues to generate swirl, because as soon as you make one change you may want to make another or remove a change you made. I've blogged about this topic before: http://blogs.technet.com/speschka/archive/2010/04/28/how-to-override...

I was talking with a buddy of mine today about the usage database in SharePoint 2010. It is by all appearances a set of partitioned tables in SQL Server. His very good question was well, partitioning tables is only available in the enterprise edition...