My good friend JP Poissant found a little configuration glitch the other day when building out a new farm. He found that when he tried to start the distributed cache service running on a second server in the farm, it failed to start. The service was listed but he was getting the "cacheHostInfo is null...

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 easily add a feature event receiver to it by just...

Hey folks, one of my good friends Tom W (who authored the magnificent SharePoint 2010 Kerberos whitepaper at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=196600 ) brought up a good point the other day about limitations with solution deployment and the impact on custom claims providers the other day. It's important...

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 file to modify - for the STS. It was also a constant...

I recently had kind of a tough time getting a non-admin FAST server configured successfully in a pretty vanilla environment, so I wanted to pass on some tips and tricks that got me past it. In FAST you basically have two types of servers when you are doing a multiple server deployment – your admin...

SharePoint 2010 adds some new features to support hosting environments, which we generally refer to as multi tenant support. In the beta release, the core multitenant infrastructure is not turned on by default. It requires a custom service application to be provisioned, and once that's done you can begin...

If you try and join a new server to the farm, but can't get the config wizard to load the list of databases from the SQL Server, double check the firewall settings on the SQL Server and SharePoint server. You will often see what seems like a really bizarre error; something like System.ArgumentNullException...