Hi folks, I just wanted to let you know that I will be making a major announcement for the CASI Kit at next week’s SharePoint Conference 2011. If you are down there come by session SPC 412 – SharePoint, Azure and Claims Integration for Developers on Wednesday at 3:15PM to catch the news. For those…
Year: 2011
A New Twist on an Old Friend – "The security validation for this page is invalid" – in SharePoint 2010
I'm sure many, many, many of you have seen my old friend (okay, exception) that goes something like this: "The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again." It's like the jelly of the month club – it's the gift that keeps…
Using the WHR Parameter with SharePoint 2010 and SAML Auth
I've seen lots of questions and confusion (and was a little lost myself for a bit) on the fixes in SharePoint 2010 SP1 + June CU to enable use of the WHR parameter. This does in fact work now but requires a couple of things: Configure the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer The SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer has a property called UseWHomeRealmParameter…
Windows Phone 7 and Other Mobile Device Access to SharePoint 2010 SAML Sites After Applying SP1 and June 2011 CU
As I alluded to in an earlier post, there have been some changes in SP1 and June CU that impact the ability of Windows Phone 7 (both RTM and Mango) and other mobile devices to access SharePoint sites that use SAML authentication. I described in a different post how to change the compat.browser file to…
Windows Azure 1.4 Diagnostics All Up Overview
I know that there have been a number of posts and articles out there about using diagnostics in Windows Azure. This, in fact, was part of the problem when I went to flesh out the details of what’s available recently. I found a bunch of different articles, but spread across many different releases of Azure…
Writing A SharePoint 2010 People Picker Control for Silverlight
One of the sorely missing pieces in the Silverlight toolbox for SharePoint developers is a people picker control. There is a control that SharePoint provides, which you can use in a web part or custom layouts page (the PeopleEditor class). Silverlight code though all executes on the client side, so there isn’t an out of…
Tips for Upgrading or Moving ADFS 2.0
I recently spent too much time trying to get an ADFS Server upgraded, in my case from Windows Server 2008 to 2008 R2. Like many SharePoint folks that are just trying to get along in a claims happy world, seemingly simple things like this can cause a surprising amount of churn. Here are some tips…
Using SAML Claims, SharePoint, WCF, Claims to Windows Token Service and Constrained Delegation to Access SQL Server
Okay, this will hopefully be the longest titled post I ever write, but I wanted to make sure it covered all the relevant technologies being discussed. This is an area that I’ve heard a more rumbling about recently, which is really all about how can I take a SAML claims user and get a Windows…
SAML Alert for SharePoint 2010 – If You Apply SP1 Follow Up with June CU
Hey all, there has been a potential issue that's recently come to light for folks that have only applied SharePoint 2010 SP1 but not the June 2011 CU. What you will find after doing this is that the people picker will no longer work for your SAML claims users. You can still add claims via…
IRM for SAML Claims Users in SharePoint 2010 is Here
For those of you who have been waiting for integrated IRM support in SharePoint 2010 with SAML claims users, your wait is over. The recently released June CU contains the fix you've been waiting for. Actually, it's the re-released June CU (if you got the original bits the first week they were up, please return…