The Distinguished Name Contains Invalid Syntax I discovered that a Network Monitor trace is your best friend for trying to solve bind problems with the System.DirectoryServices.Protocols.LdapConnection object. First, some background. I was getting...

While experimenting with Windows Identity Foundation and SharePoint 2010, I was attempting to configure SharePoint to use a customer Security Token Provider (STS) I had written. The STS worked perfectly with a normal Federation enabled ASP.NET web site...

Continuing my prior post on working with the WIF samples, the WIF samples that come with the SDK, or the labs in the WIF training kit are great learning experiences. To better understand better what is going on under-the-covers, or to troubleshoot problems...

The WIF samples that come with the SDK, or the labs in the WIF training kit are great learning experiences. If you want to understand better what is going on under-the-covers, or to troubleshoot problems, turning on service log tracing is easy. Here are...

I am just starting to get up-to-speed on Azure and claims authentication. Working through the WIF training kit, I got to the exercise to enable an Azure WCF Service to use claims authentication. Since I had never worked with the Azure SDK before, I was...

Technorati Tags: SharePoint , Upgrade I was recently upgrading a MOSS 2007 SSP database, the profile database) to a SharePoint 2010 profile database. The MOSS web applications, in particular the My Site hosting web application used SSL, a typical scenario...