I have been working with claims authentication quite a bit lately, and something that can be frustrating when using claims authentication for Forms Based Authentication (FBA) or SAML claims is that when you log in you see the claims identifier instead of the user’s name.  As an example, I configured...

This post will show how you can secure a web site based on if a user has been given a badge in a SharePoint 2013 community site. Badges and Reputation in SharePoint 2013 Community Sites SharePoint 2013 Community Sites provide a new set of features to implement game theory, or gamification. One...

I recently attained the Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2010 certification.  I have long wanted to write about the experience, but honestly didn’t know how to begin.  After quite a few conversations with friends and colleagues, I thought I would share some insight about the process...

This post demonstrates the app only policy for SharePoint 2013 app development and show how to create SharePoint 2013 apps using OAuth tokens with either a trust to ACS as well as S2S.  I show how to request the AllowAppOnlyPolicy permission and how to execute actions that the current user is not...

This post will show how to set the PortalSuperUser and PortalSuperReader accounts for SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell. Background I frequently create web applications in my SharePoint 2010 environment that use Windows claims authentication.  When you specify the authentication to use claims, an...

I recently had a project where I needed to query the extensionAttribute1 – extensionAttribute15 attributes for users from Active Directory.  I’ve already written about how to query Active Directory using System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry .  In that post, a reader named Marc suggested...

In this post, we show how to query Active Directory using out of box tools as well as custom code.  Since joining Premier Field Engineering, I realized that an essential part of understanding SharePoint requires an understanding of Active Directory and LDAP.  You need to have a decent grasp...

An interesting question was posted on one of the distribution lists today. “The client wanted to look into this MSDN drag and drop typed left navigation bar to work on Sharepoint 2010, does anyone make this work or have idea about this?” Click the control that is circled, and the menu is expanded or...

I got a shiny new Windows Phone 7 yesterday, I was so excited.  I chose the Samsung Focus from AT&T.  I excitedly added my Windows Live ID to it during initialization, and the first thing I did was go to set up the XBox Live hub, anxious to see my XBox Live avatar show up.  That’s...

  The Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook is now available! I’ll admit, I am a huge Facebook fan.  I have come to use it more than any other social network.  That’s why I was excited to see the Outlook Social Connector for Facebook announced.  I installed it,...

This post shows how to implement FBA claims-based authentication for SharePoint 2010.  We will use the ASP.NET membership and role provider to authenticate users to our SharePoint 2010 site. Overview SharePoint 2007 introduced the ability to use the ASP.NET Membership Provider to authenticate users...

Thanks to everyone who attended the SharePoint 2010 Developer Best Practices talk at the SharePointPro 2010 Summit and Expo conference.  As promised, the deck has been uploaded.  Get it here . http://cid-09d5ededfee6c24b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Presentations/SPPro%20SharePoint%20Development...

I had the pleasure of speaking at the SharePoint TechFest 2010 event today in Dallas, Texas.  Over 650 people at this event, holy smokes it was a great time.  I had the first time slot of the day, and when I first started the talk the room wasn’t even 1/4 full (maybe about 30 people). ...

Today, we’ll show off a bit of WCF for working with Twitter.  The last time I posted on using Twitter with WCF, I showed how to update your Twitter status using WCF .  The rest of the Twitter API is just as easy to work with when you are using WCF.  Since the last post on that used an...

Man, I am spoiled.  I am spoiled by how simple the free edition of SQL Server 2008, SQL 2008 Express , is to set up and connect to.  I found myself needing to connect to an Oracle database this week.  I haven’t had to connect to an Oracle database in years, I forgot how painful this can...

Steve Pietrek has a great link blog ( Steve Pietrek - Everything SharePoint and Office ) that aggregates blog postings on SharePoint and Office.  If you are at all interested in seeing what’s possible with SharePoint, I highly recommend you subscribe to this great resource.  In his April 30th...

Part 6 of the SharePoint for Developers series is posted to Channel9, this one focusing on creating custom web services in SharePoint .  For reference, here are the links to the previous 5 screencasts in this series so far. Introducing Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS...

I’ve done a bit of work with customers interested in consuming SharePoint data without using the SharePoint web services.  A common request asks how to consume the data from JavaScript. Turns out the answer is easy when you develop a custom feature. I created a companion screencast on Channel9 that...

Even more free training for SharePoint Developers.   Module 1 - Developing Solutions on the SharePoint Platform » learn now Module 2 - Web Parts » learn now Module 3 - Page Navigation » learn now Module 4 - Page Branding » learn now Module 5 - Data Lists » learn now Module 6 - Web Services...

There's a great writeup on Port25 by Peter Galli that talks about the Stonehenge Incubation Project . Microsoft first talked about Stonehenge at ApacheCon 2008 , which was held in New Orleans last November. Since then, it has been approved as an incubator project within Apache Software Foundation, and...

I have worked with many customers on understanding WSRP and the producer vs. consumer discussion.  We introduced a WSRP consumer web part in MOSS 2007, and it's great to finally announce that we have a producer story as well.  Go to Ryan's blog to see more about the WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint...

I had the opportunity to talk with William Oellermann about the Managed Services Engine (MSE). MSE is a solution built by Microsoft's SOA Solutions Team that facilitates enterprise SOA through service virtualization. MSE provides the ability to support versioning, abstraction, management, routing, and...

Since the TwitterSync Facebook app is broken , I wanted to have a client that updates both Twitter and Facebook statuses. This post shows how I used WCF to update statuses on Twitter. The first thing to do is to create the contract. [ServiceContract] public interface ITwitterStatus { [OperationContract...

It's time to submit our FY09 plans, and I am looking for your help. I've got a lot of really cool stuff to share with you around SharePoint this year (Enterprise Social Computing, integrating .NET 3.5 and Silverlight, creating solutions with SharePoint and Office 2007, integrating SharePoint and BI,...

Thanks to the folks at Lexis Nexis who attended my talk on "Microsoft and Web 2.0" today.  I went through quite a bit of material around Windows Live, the Live Platform, Silverlight, and newer technologies like DeepZoom, PhotoSynth, Live Mesh, SQL Server Data Services, and BizTalk Services...