Hey all, I was just told today about an interesting wrinkle on a new feature in SharePoint 2010. As I've blogged about here before, large list throttling is a new feature that's designed to limit the impact of large lists on the health of a SharePoint...

Had kind of an interesting question that someone just asked me so I thought I would share the results here with everyone. The question was whether you could take a custom claim that is provided by augmentation via a custom claims provider, and use it...

One of the things I’ve wondered about off and on is how to find out who is following a certain person using the new social features of SharePoint 2010. For example, when I go to the My Site of somebody I can click on the Colleagues tab and I can...

Not sure how often this will come up, but it was something that took me a while to track down so I thought I'd share here. Suppose you are working with a ManagedProperty in SharePoint search, and you want to look at mapping it to a crawled property. Now...

I've been working on a developer tool off and on for months now to help working with the query engine in SharePoint 2010. It's come far enough along that it's probably ready for some folks to start using it. I've been debating about putting it up on CodePlex...

A buddy of mine at Microsoft was good enough to point me to this video on channel 9 that talks about using PowerShell from your C# code without doing the dreaded process and spawn routine we've probably all used before. To begin with, watch the 4 minute...

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...

I ran across a weird little problem last week and thought I would share the resolution. I have a feeling this may be blogged about / documented somewhere and if so then I guess this is just more fuel for the fire. I was working on a sandbox solution...