A fairly constant hurdle when doing claims augmentation in SharePoint 2010 has been trying to figure out what claims a user has when your custom claims provider is invoked to do claims augmentation. For example, the claims you want to augment for a person...

I’ve been asked this question a couple times before, which is I want to be able to programmatically find out what claims providers are being used with my web application. This question is usually asked to mean what SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuers...

One of the interesting challenges when trying to troubleshoot remotely connected systems is figuring out what they're saying to each other. The CASI Kit that I've posted about other times on this blog ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010...

Someone raised an interesting question the other day about the ability of a WCF application, that's configured as described in Eric White's blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericwhite/archive/2010/06/18/establishing-trust-between-a-wcf-web-service-and-the...

Hey all, for those of you have followed this blog over the last couple of years, you know I've covered a lot of different topics about SharePoint. Today's post then is probably the "kitchen sink", as in I've covered everything but the kitchen sink, until...

I’ve done this task a variety of ways over the past year but finally decided that I should just do things the “right” way. The task is simply enough – when your custom claims provider is being invoked, like during claims augmentation...