Hey all, just spreading the word, in case you have not heard – after taking a one-year hiatus, the SharePoint Conference will be coming back early next year. Please visit http://sharepointconference.com/ to see all the details, and hopefully I’ll see some of you at the next SPC.
Year: 2013
Converting a VS.NET Web for a Provider Hosted SharePoint App to a Full Blown Web or Console Application
This post is yet another in my series of "how long of a post title I can come up with and still not convey the actual essence of the post" contest. I'm sure you've all been following along at home and are thrilled to see another entry, but it was either this or create a…
Missing Context Token in Low Trust App with SharePoint 2013
Should you decide that you want to write low trust apps for an on-premises SharePoint 2013 farm, there are a number of hoops you should expect to jump through (NOTE: this assumes the SPNs for your web apps are already configured in the MsolServicePrincipal for your o365 tenant): Create a new app in Visual Studio;…
Checklist for Issues with Custom Claims Providers in SharePoint 2010 and 2013
As I was going round and round a few weeks ago trying to figure out why my custom claims provider was not working as I anticipated, one of our great developers (Chris R.) gave me a list of things to look at to try and diagnose the issue. After spending about 5 minutes on his…
Integrating SharePoint 2013 with Azure Active Directory – Part 2 The Custom Claims Provider
In Part 1 of this series, we went through how to configure SharePoint to use ACS and Azure Active Directory (AAD) as our Identity Provider. Once that is complete you will have a working end to end solution in which you can authenticate, get authorized and work in the site. What you also have is…
Integrating SharePoint 2013 with Azure Active Directory – Part 1 Configuration
NOTE: I updated this 10/9/2013 because some of the Url references I had below had changed between when I did it (when AAD was in preview) and now (RTM). The Azure Active Directory (AAD) team has made the first release of their product. Along the way they’ve added functionality that allows you to configure AAD…
Using Multiple Properties Or The Entire Object In a Converter Class for Windows Phone and WinRT
Kind of a long wordy title, what does it really mean? When you are creating a custom converter for Windows Phone or WinRT, you create a class that inherits from IValueConverter and implement a Convert method. In that method you're given (among other things) the value that has been bound (bind-ed sounds too funky, sorry)…
Using REST Services with a Provider Hosted App in SharePoint 2013
Today's topic seems straightforward enough, right? There's lots of documentation all over the interwebs about how to do this so should be a piece of cake. Well, as it turns out, when I did this a couple of weeks ago I found that there is a lot of missing information, misleading information, and in some…
Creating Refinable and Sortable Managed Properties in Sites and Site Collections in SharePoint 2013
Someone was asking today about how to create a managed property at the site or site collection level that is refinable and sortable. When you go into Schema Management at the site collection level you may notice that you can create new managed properties, but only simple ones that are based on string and you…
Troubleshooting Tips for Hybrid BCS Connections Between Office 365 and SharePoint 2013 On Premises
Let me preface this posting by saying a couple of things: This is not going to be a "how do I create a BCS hybrid connection to my on-premises farm"; there is a whitepaper coming in the next month or so that will be lengthy and loaded with details on the step by step instructions for…