I had this happen with a CU recently, and I saw someone that had the same problem with SP1. You download and install some patch - a CU or service pack. The final step after installation is to run psconfig on each server in the farm. However, psconfig...

Someone one posed an interesting question to me the other day, around whether or not you could use SAML claims with host header sites in SharePoint 2010. My initial thought was yes but I wanted to dig into it a little bit more to investigate. The short...

Hey folks, I just wanted to let you know that CA SiteMinder and Microsoft folks have been working together to create a whitepaper that details how to federate identities between CA Federation Manager and SharePoint 2010. They have recently released this...

Had lots of fun earlier trying to figure out why my Windows Phone 7 application could not connect to my WCF endpoint. I had tested things out thoroughly with a standard winforms client application and everything worked great, but whenever I tried hitting...

I recently witnessed a problem that proved to be fairly difficult to track down so I thought I would share the issue and resolution. In this case, a custom claims provider had been developed and it was being used as the default claim provider for the...

Hey folks wanted to let you know about some other federation whitepapers that have come out recently. Please see the following if interested: ADFS with Shibboleth - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/card/archive/2010/10/22/ad-fs-2-0-step-by-step-guide-federation...