I've had this happen a number of times and it always temporarily gets me gummed up so I thought I would describe this problem and resolution here because I'm sure others have seen it too. Assume you have configured a SharePoint web app to use SAML...

I noticed an unusual wrinkle recently when using Secure Store Service (SSS) in a custom claims provider I was working on. This is actually an interesting scenario because I was doing what many folks want to do - custom claims augmentation. I needed to...

I fought with this recently and didn't find any info about it out in the ether anywhere so just thought I'd share in case someone else runs across it. Assume you have SharePoint installed in a classic resource forest scenario. So the SharePoint farm is...

For those of you who have been developing solutions for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010, you may have noticed a slight packaging peculiarity when it comes to custom claims providers. In Visual Studio 2010 you can create a new feature and you can...

In part 1 of ULS logging tips ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2011/01/23/tips-for-uls-logging.aspx ) I included a some code to add a custom ULS logging Area and demonstrated how to use it within your project. After working with it a bit...