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...

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...

Hey all, we ran across kind of a funny situation this week so I thought I would share with you what we saw and what you need to know. We were working on customizing the master page using a feature to deploy the master and feature receiver to actually...

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...

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...

NOTE: UPDATED 1/8/2011 I wanted to follow-up on the previous post about migrating authentiation types in SharePoint 2010 that was done here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/06/12/migrating-a-web-application-from-windows-classic-to...

I just thought I would create this post to raise awareness about another way to manage trusted root authorities in SharePoint 2010. For those of you who have been doing claims authentication sites, you know that you need to add all of the certificates...

I was recently asked to help provide some code that addressed a couple of concerns: 1) how to use the ProcessBatchData method to add new items to a list and 2) how to create the Xml that ProcessBatchData uses to create different types of events, namely...