One of the interesting challenges when trying to troubleshoot remotely connected systems is figuring out what they're saying to each other. The CASI Kit that I've posted about other times on this blog (http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/11/06/the-claims-azure-and-sharepoint-integration-toolkit-part-1.aspx) is a good example whose main purpose in life is providing plumbing to connect data center clouds together. One of the…
Year: 2011
How SharePoint 2010 Can Help Produce A TV Show
Hey all, for those of you have followed this blog over the last couple of years, you know I’ve covered a lot of different topics about SharePoint. Today’s post then is probably the “kitchen sink”, as in I’ve covered everything but the kitchen sink, until now. I’m going to talk about how SharePoint 2010 can…
SharePoint 2010 Claims Auth Login Stops at ADFS Authentication Page
I've had this happen a number of times and it always temporarily gets me gummed up so I thought I would describe this problem and resolution here because I'm sure others have seen it too. Assume you have configured a SharePoint web app to use SAML claims, and the IP-STS is ADFS 2.0. What I see…
Using Secure Store Service in a Custom Claims Provider with SharePoint 2010
I noticed an unusual wrinkle recently when using Secure Store Service (SSS) in a custom claims provider I was working on. This is actually an interesting scenario because I was doing what many folks want to do – custom claims augmentation. I needed to connect to a remote data source so I could query for…
Configuring Secure Store Service to Use Accounts Across A One Way Trust in SharePoint 2010
I fought with this recently and didn't find any info about it out in the ether anywhere so just thought I'd share in case someone else runs across it. Assume you have SharePoint installed in a classic resource forest scenario. So the SharePoint farm is in what we'll call "Resources" forest; it has a one-way outgoing…
Packaging A SharePoint 2010 Custom Claims Provider in a Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Project
For those of you who have been developing solutions for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010, you may have noticed a slight packaging peculiarity when it comes to custom claims providers. In Visual Studio 2010 you can create a new feature and you can easily add a feature event receiver to it by just right-clicking…
Tips for ULS Logging Part 2
In part 1 of ULS logging tips (http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2011/01/23/tips-for-uls-logging.aspx) I included a some code to add a custom ULS logging Area and demonstrated how to use it within your project. After working with it a bit I noticed a few things: 1. There was some code in there that didn’t jive up with the latest SDK…
Who Wants to Work in the Cloud?
Hey folks, as some of you may know I work with the SharePoint Online team at Microsoft. We’re currently looking for some fresh SharePoint savvy engineers to join our team and help design and build the next generation of SharePoint in the cloud services. If you have the SharePoint chops and interest, we’d love to…
Migrating User Accounts from Windows Claims to SAML Claims
In the work I’ve been busy with lately I’ve had a lot of interest from folks that are interested in starting out as Windows claims users, and then at some point switching over and start using SAML claims. Sounds reasonable enough, but the problem is that we don’t have an out of the box way…
Tips for ULS Logging
UPDATE 2-4-2011: I recommend taking a look at the updated example for this at http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2011/02/04/tips-for-uls-logging-part-2.aspx. The new example is better and more functional. When I added some ULS logging to a recent project I noticed one annoying little side effect. In the ULS logs the Area was showing up as “Unknown”. I realize that some…