Part 3 of a multi-part series on Claims authentication and SharePoint. In this post, we discuss the workings of SharePoint's implementation of the WS-Federation Authentication Module and the various redirects invoked by SharePoint to ultimately get the browser to an STS.

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A walk through WIF's WS-Federation Authentication Module (WSFAM) and how it works, as well as insights into how this process is modified by SharePoint's own implementation of this module.

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Part 1 of 8 or more: Internals of Claims authentication in SharePoint and other Windows Identity Foundation-based web applications. This post includes a thorough review of the OASIS WS-* protocols WS-Security, WS-Trust, and WS-Federation. In each article, special focus is placed on application to SharePoint.

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Those who've read some of my previous articles or attended my PowerShell trainings know how much emphasis I put on PowerShell's object-centric nature. The great power of PowerShell lies in its ability to dynamically create objects and members from many...

Name job-timer-recycle Title Timer Service Recycle Default Schedule Daily at 6:00 AM Service TimerService LockType None (Server) Type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerRecycleJobDefinition BaseType SPAdministrationServiceJobDefinition   In...

The Timer Service Recycle, Password Management, and Application Server Administration Service recurring timer jobs all derive from the SPAdministrationServiceJobDefinition class. We'll begin here by presenting and discussing this special timer job class...

A proper title for this post could have been "What is PowerShell?" The PSObject layer and the Extended and Adapted Type Systems are the heart of what make PowerShell what it is - a shell for all objects. If you are one of the many who confuse PowerShell...

With this post it's time we take our best shot at discussing a somewhat confusing topic - SharePoint timer job locks and scopes. I'll do my best to describe things; if you have questions or need further clarification post a comment and I'll attempt to...

In describing the invocation and execution of timer jobs within SharePoint's Timer Service framework, there are a few possible approaches. We could begin by describing the SPJobDefinition class and its various descendants. Another approach would be to...

As a single unified logical entity, a SharePoint farm requires a mechanism to run tasks necessary to provide its services. These tasks include updating components of the farm such as servers and services, and updating data and configuration in farm databases...

Well, let's get the hard part out of the way first and admit that my earlier post explaining and detailing how to load balance the Topology Service on the publishing farm in a cross-farm federation scenario was just plain wrong. If it makes me feel better...

SharePoint 2010 introduces the new, powerful SharePoint Management Shell, helping administrators better manage, maintain, and gain insight into their SharePoint environment, while providing a gateway into various aspects of the SharePoint object model...

After a great deal of research and discussion, and confirmation from the product team, it's clear that the Topology Service in SharePoint 2010 does not need to be handled for load-balancing in any special way for most situations. Thank you to all who...

SharePoint Certificate Authority and Root Certificate To properly understand the out-of-the-box configuration of the SharePoint local Security Token Service and the SharePoint Services host, it's important to understand the SharePoint certificate authority...

Before I show you how to decrypt a SecureString quickly in PowerShell, let's explain why this is something an administrator should be aware of and able to do and why this doesn't constitue a "hack" or circumvention of security. What I'm demonstrating...

It's Guest Blogger Week at the Hey, Scripting Guy blog this week, and today they're featuring an article by me! Check it out at Use PowerShell to script changes to the SharePoint web.config file . Hey, Scripting Guy is a great resource for PowerShell...

In Part 1 of this series on HTTP Request Throttling, we discussed how to retrieve and modify existing monitors. It's now time to see how you can add your own monitors to the Request Throttling and Monitoring system. As an example, we'll assume that you...

SharePoint Web servers can generate a pretty heavy resource load, consuming processor time, memory, and disk I/O. Usually, a farm will continue to process requests even while under heavy strain, only the performance and response time for end users will...

SharePoint 2010 introduces the SharePoint Health framework, a formalized API and user interface for defining checks to be run against SharePoint farms and services and reports to be returned by these checks. The framework actually has its roots in the...

Well, well, well, if it isn’t our friend the double-hop authentication problem again rearing its ugly head when trying to use PowerShell remoting technologies to manage a SharePoint farm… So you’ve run Set-WSManQuickConfig and/or Enable-PSRemoting on...

I couldn’t find a simple way to turn the developer dashboard on and off via PowerShell - there’s a STSADM property for it, but who wants to use STSADM anymore? So here’s a function to change the setting quickly. 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010...

A common scenario in SharePoint is the need to retrieve data from back-end data sources – external databases, Web services, reports via SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), and data cubes via Analysis Services are some common examples. Often these data...

SharePoint is built on top of ASP.NET. There are several key classes/objects in the SharePoint infrastructure which customize the ASP.NET pipeline; or in the case of SharePoint 2010 the integrated ASP.NET/IIS pipeline. The abstract and base implementations...

Technorati Tags: powershell , sharepoint One of the ways the Microsoft IT team monitors performance of our internal SharePoint servers is using a tool which calculates time-to-first-byte for a client-generated HTTP request (code at the end of this...