This is a fortunately small update to the post about Windows Phone 7.x and SAML SharePoint sites I originally wrote here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2011/09/09/windows-phone-7-and-other-mobile-access-to-sharepoint-2010-saml-sites-after...

I was putting this information together today for the SharePoint 2013 recordings that will be going up on TechNet early next year, and I thought it would be good information to share here as well. I've had a few posts already about search and query rules...

For those of you that haven't heard yet, we have some great new features in SharePoint 2013 that enable hybrid environments between on-premises and o365 farms. These features allow you to use your BCS applications you have on premise in your o365 farm...

Hey, I'm an app guy, I like doing dev, but honestly - I may go hoarse screaming at my computer if I have to track down one more "The issuer of the token is not a trusted issuer" problem with my new SharePoint apps. To try and help you save your own voice...

I had this question come up today and it was a little bit of work to track down so I thought I would share here. In SharePoint 2013 the Search Service Application has something called a Global Search Center Url. In the absence of any other configuration...

One of the neat features about SharePoint 2013 is that Office Web Apps has been split off into it's "own product" so it doesn't have to be installed on a SharePoint server anymore. There are lots of reasons to do that, like being able to maintain a separate...

I was working on a build of SharePoint that is post beta 2 today, and found that one of my custom high trust apps I had built would no longer work. In looking at the ULS logs I was getting the dreaded "The issuer of the token is not a trusted issuer"...

In my posting on using SharePoint up in Azure IaaS services ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2012/06/17/creating-an-azure-persistent-vm-for-an-isolated-sharepoint-farm.aspx ), one of my friends – Mike Taghizadeh, who demands that he...

I haven't seen a lot of information out and about on this yet, so I thought I'd take a little time to frankly - get into some PowerShell - for Request Manager (RM). For those of you who aren't familiar with RM, it's a new piece of SharePoint 2013 designed...

This one's short but important - there's been a change in SharePoint 2013 when you install a custom claims provider. The IsUsedByDefault property is now set to False by default; in SharePoint 2010 it was True, which means as soon as you installed your...

SharePoint 2013 brings with it a brand new application model, which we euphemistically refer to as the “app model” or “cloud app model”. While it brings a whole new set of opportunities from a development perspective, it also carries...

This is one of those posts that's really about "unexciting" you rather than the other way around unfortunately. I got a question the other day from someone who noticed a new User Profile Claim Provider when creating a web application policy in central...

There are many cool things about search in SharePoint 2013, and one that I think is really going to help growing search verticals for departments and business units is the ability to create managed properties down to the site collection level. Managed...

Okay, that’s admittedly kind of a long goofy title, so what is Steve talking about here? Well, let me phrase it this way – a few days ago I saw a question flying around that went something like this: I have folks that work for different departments...

First let me say that one of the things I like about blogging about random SharePoint mystery meat is the fact that I can use completely colloquial language like my blog title. Something that’s nearly impossible to get away with, unless, say, you...

I've seen a few examples - some myself and some from others - of issues getting My Sites created in beta 2 of SharePoint 2013. It can be a little tough to track down, because we use a queued approach now to creating personal sites, so you need to do a...

Hi folks, it has come to my attention that there is one particular property on the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer in SharePoint 2013 that you should absolutely never ever touch or try to change in any way. 2013 introduces a new property on the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer...

Some of you may have noticed the new Share button in SharePoint 2013. Without going into great detail, the Sharing metaphor is plugged in throughout SharePoint as a means for anyone to request and grant access, for themselves or someone else. If you are...

This is a topic that becomes very important in SharePoint 2013, and that is making sure you have a fully populated user profile application. In SharePoint 2013 the user profile system plays a critical role in the OAuth infrastructure, which is what allows...

This is one of the 1001 or great new things about search in SharePoint 2013. In fact if I had the copious free time that would actually be kind of a fun challenge, writing a 1001 new things I like about Search, but I digress. In this particular case,...

Here's something that might cost you a TON of time if you aren't careful, so please take a few minutes to read this. You should be seeing some documentation pretty shortly that describes how to create what we call an S2S application, which means Server...

Nothing really earth shattering here - the previous version of FBA Configuration Manager for SharePoint 2010 ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/07/28/sharepoint-2010-forms-based-authentication-configuration-manager.aspx) won't deploy directly...

In SharePoint 2013 we add some great new features around self-service site creation (SSSC). You can configure things like whether to use a custom form to create the site collection, whether to create a subweb or site collection, what path should be used...

SharePoint 2013 includes a number of new features to make it easier than ever before to style and publish web sites. One of those features is Design Manager; it allows you to do things like create different channels for your content – such as one...

I thought I'd phrase my answer in the form of a question...no wait, that isn't exactly right. Okay, let me just say that this is one short little post that falls in the category of "It's the Little Things You Love" about SharePoint 2013. Today's feature...