Recently ran into an issue with how to handle multi-values coming in via custom claims. For e.g. if Idp (ADFS, SiteMinder, RSA FIM) uses AD LDS or AD, then in most environments, we would want to reuse the AD security groups for authorization within...

Background On number of occasions there arises a need to capture HTTP traffic. In dev environments, this is usually accomplished using tools like NetMon or Wireshark Issue arises when we have a need to capture HTTP traffic which is enabled with...

Background On number of occasions, when using claims authentication, Trusted provider bases its authentication on Active Directory LDS. In these cases, profile data from LDS needs to be imported into SharePoint Design SharePoint...

Background Client has Load balancer which needs to perform health checks on port 80 to verify if SharePoint is serving pages on Port 80 or not. It not, then it needs to drop traffic to the specific WFE. SharePoint is protected by SiteMinder....

Environment Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2008 Issue On Windows 2008 R2, when one Navigates to Component Services > Computers > My Computer > DCOM Config > IIS WAMREG Admin Service Click on Properties (for IIS WAMREG Admin...

Environment SQL backend, SSRS server: SQL 2008 SP1 SQL backend is behind the firewall with only specific DB port open (port used by SQL browser is not open…hence the need to specify specific port) RS service login has DB Creator and Security...

Technologies involved Performance Point Server 2007 Performance Point Server 2007 SP2 SQL Server 2008 Environment Performance Point Server 2007 Issue After installing monitoring server on a server (without issues and all pre...

Technologies involved Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SQL Server 2008 Environment WFE (Query) IJS (Index) SQL Server Issue Out of nowhere, we found that indexes were not getting propagated to our Query...

Technologies involved Project Server 2007 (SP1, Infrastructure Update) Portfolio Server 2007 MOSS(SP1, Infrastructure Update) Issues Kept getting "Authentication data undefined for specified Project Server and current user" message when...

Technologies involved Project Server 2007 (SP1, Infrastructure Update) SQL Server 2005 SP2 Issue When trying to build an OLAP cube, we kept getting "Your permissions on the server computer do not allow you to administer this analysis...

Issue User get’s a listed below error when opening a new or existing InfoPath form because of an error in the form's code Error “The required version of the Microsoft .NET Framework is not installed on your computer or the InfoPath Primary Interop...

As with any production environment, the next exercise (after configuring SSRS in SharePoint Integrated mode using NTLM) was to get it configured using Kerberos. Listed below are the steps required to accomplish SSRS configured for SharePoint integration...

Client kept getting “ The target location you specified is not supported by the report server ” message every time they try to run a SQL 2005 report manually deployed to SharePoint document library (MOSS). This same error also showed up when we go to...

We have encountered issues related to email enabled document libraries stop receiving emails. After investigations listed below is the synopsis of the issue. Background Intermitently we have encountered (on different environments) issues with...