When getting acquainted with BCS, most new users work against an unsecured backend. This means they can ignore the issue of authentication and focus on the fun stuff, like making external lists and searching external content. But real world external systems...

The SharePoint Team Blog has a great series that walks you through the creation of an external list using Visual Studio 2010 and the new Business Data Connectivity Designer! The first two posts of the series are already live with more to come. Walkthrough...

Check out the SharePoint SPIdentity Team Blog to read up on how Identity was implemented in SharePoint 2010. There, aside from an introductory post , you’ll find the first to parts to a series of blog articles that talk about configuring claims-based...

In the last post , we covered how to use Sandboxed Workflow Actions to lessen the stress on your external system. In this post, we will cover the final option for writing activities that surface BCS data to be used in SharePoint Designer (SPD): Full Trust...