Hopefully folks are starting to get some use out of the multitude of SharePoint 2010 postings I’ve been tossing up here. This is a new one that I was a little hesitant to put together…given my history in SharePoint 2007 I don’t want...

The developer dashboard is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 that is design to provide additional performance and tracing information that can be used to debug and troubleshoot issues with page rendering time. The dashboard is turned off by default, but...

In this post I’m going to do an end-to-end walk through on how to configure SharePoint 2010 and ADFS v2 together to use SAML claims authentication. I’ll includes steps and PowerShell scripts to demonstrate and will try and bring all of the...

List throttling is one of the new options in SharePoint 2010 that enable to set limits on how severely users can put the beat down on your servers. In a nutshell, what it does is allow you to set a limit for how many rows of data can be retrieved for...

The Content Organizer feature is a new routing feature that extends, enhances, and makes more broadly available the routing engine used in the Records Center site template from SharePoint 2007. It not only allows you to automatically route documents to...

SharePoint 2010 introduces a new client side object model (hereafter referred to as the “client OM”) for retrieving data. It supports a subset of functionality contained in the server side object model, but generally speaking gives you ready access to...

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...

This is the first in a series of blogs in which I'll talk about writing a custom claims provider. First, it's probably worth understanding a little background on what a claims provider is and why we might want to use one. A claims provider in SharePoint...

Here's another in what seems like a growing list of permissions gotchas in SharePoint 2010. Assume if you will, you are a crack developer and building a custom application for SharePoint 2010. You're writing code on your development server, which has...

As I was working on understanding the process for expiring login cookies recently, I found what seemed like a pretty big problem. For SAML claims users, once they got their login cookie from ADFS, they would never seem to time out. Meaning they could...

In this blog I thought I’d show how to use some of the cool new features in SharePoint 2010 with some of our old favorites from SharePoint 2007 to create an interesting search results experience. We’re going to do all of this WITHOUT WRITING ANY CODE...

In SharePoint 2007 writing a custom login page for a forms based authentication (FBA) site was not too terribly hard. There were a few things to know, most of which weren’t SharePoint specific, and some tips to have your login form take on the look...

Hey all, we ran across kind of a funny situation this week so I thought I would share with you what we saw and what you need to know. We were working on customizing the master page using a feature to deploy the master and feature receiver to actually...

Well folks, it's been a while since I've added to the blog, and ironically I find myself on Christmas morning finally chasing down a little "bugger" that was causing me considerable grief yesterday afternoon. So Merry Christmas, and here are a couple...

NEW PREFACE TO THIS POSTING, AND OPEN COMMENT TO THE SITE OWNER: Since the blog site was upgraded to the latest version of whatever the blazes this thing is, the formatting has stunk like a pig on the 4th of July. I usually spend a fair amount of time...

This is a problem that I’ve seen come up a few times now, with a particularly nasty side effect for sites using SAML claims with ADFS. Where I first saw this problem was when I created a new farm and I went into add a service account. I typed in...

Some of you playing with claims authentication may get what seems like a strange error. Youv'e set everything up on your STS and SharePoint, you try and hit the site, and you get a big error and stack dump that says "The root of the certificate chain...

As described in the first post in this series, the Drop Off Library is created when you activate the Content Organizer feature. As soon as you configure the Content Organizer to start routing documents (which, actually it does when you activate the feature...

The Content Organizer rules are really the heart that drives the content organizer system. The rules list is just a standard SharePoint list that uses the custom Rule content type. Each rule contains all of the criteria used to determine where new items...

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...

The previous posts in this series have been pretty list-centric. In this posting we’re going to delve down a different path in exploring the client object model and talk about security. The client OM actually provides great support for working with the...

As part of some claims based authentication work I've been doing recently, I've come across two very important constraints. They are manageable constraints, but they are things that you need to know about in advance of setting up and configuring your...

This is a companion posting to my blog about how to use the client OM with a site that is secured with FBA (http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/06/03/using-the-client-object-model-with-a-forms-based-auth-site-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx). ...

The question has been coming up more frequently lately about how does one configure multiple web apps that use claims authentication in SharePoint 2010. The primary point of confusion usually comes around the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer. As I noted in...

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...