A while ago I posted an entry on how to configure your custom claims provider to replace the out of the box claims provider (http://blogs.technet.com/speschka/archive/2010/04/28/how-to-override-the-default-name-resolution-and-claims-provider-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx). I wanted / need to follow up on that posting, because we found some additional details that you will want to have in hand should you go down this route. …
Year: 2010
New Online Training For SharePoint 2010 Released
Hey folks, we’ve just released a BUNCH of SharePoint 2010 training materials to the web today. Me and several of my good friends at Microsoft worked on these for more hours than I care to say. We wanted to make sure the content was up and available on product launch day, and both have arrived…
How Do I Update my WSP with Visual Studio 2010
I saw this funny little behavior today and thought I would share. You may be building applications for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010 now and pretty happy with the solution packages (.wsp files) it creates for you. This is definitely one of the great new features in Visual Studio 2010. I was working on…
How Your Client Application can know when your SharePoint 2010 Farm is Busy
SharePoint 2010 has a number of new features built in to keep your farm up and running as happily and healthy as possible. One of the features it uses to do that is called Http Throttling. It allows you to set thresholds for different performance counters. You decide which counters to use and what thresholds…
How to Override the Default Name Resolution and Claims Provider in SharePoint 2010
An issue that has frustrated a lot of folks since SharePoint 2007 and the WebSSO provider, and that continues today in SharePoint 2010 when using claims authentication with something like ADFS v2, is name resolution. Meaning that in most cases you can type in any random value you want into the search box, and the…
How to Create Multiple Claims Auth Web Apps in a Single SharePoint 2010 Farm
The question has been coming up more frequently lately about how does one configure multiple web apps that use claims authentication in SharePoint 2010. The primary point of confusion usually comes around the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer. As I noted in a previous post (http://blogs.technet.com/speschka/archive/2010/02/17/planning-considerations-for-claims-based-authentication-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx), you can only associate a token-signing certificate from an STS with one SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer. …
Update on Errors for Root Certificate Not Trusted with SharePoint 2010 Claims Authentication
Hey all, I've been away awhile…got in a little vacation finally and also switched groups at Microsoft so I've been buried getting my feet wet in a new job. Things are starting to even out a little so I will hopefully be back writing here a little more often again. I wanted to point out…
Creating Custom Error Pages in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 now provides the ability to create custom error pages. There are some very good reasons for doing this, especially if you have an externally published site. Todd Carter has written an excellent post that describes some of these reasons in detail, along with sample code to register your own custom error page. I…
Creating Service Applications and Service Application Proxies for SharePoint 2010 in PowerShell
This is kind of a silly little thing really, but I just stumbled upon it because it's one of those things that when you are trying to do it, you end up pulling your hair out trying to remember how. Just wanted to show a rather inventive and simple method for creating a service application…
Writing a Custom Claims Provider for SharePoint 2010 – Part 4: Supporting Resolve Name
In the first three parts of this series we've implemented just about all of the support needed to do an end-to-end claims provider. In this last post I'll describe how to name resolution support in the type-in control. To add this support we'll need to implement the following property and methods: SupportsResolve and FillResolve. Now…