Now that I've finally got my Windows Phone 7, I have had a little time to play around with some of the integration with SharePoint and start to understand better some of the issues and limitations I've heard described previously by other folks. I'm going to try and share some of those details here so…
Tag: Authentication
Adding A Custom Claim to a Web App Policy via PowerShell in SharePoint 2010
I found this process to be much more difficult than anticipated, and then much easier than expected once done so I figured I would do a quick post on it. The task at hand was to add a custom claim to a web app policy via PowerShell. It all works simple enough via the central…
TrustedMissingIdentityClaimSource Error with Claims Auth in SharePoint 2010
I've seen this error happen a few times to myself and others so I thought I would share the likely culprit. The scenario is, you set up claims authentication in SharePoint 2010…and you're pretty sure you've configured everything correctly. 🙂 When you actually try and navigate to the site though you may get the standard…
Calling a Claims-Aware WCF Service From a SharePoint 2010 Claims Site
I’ve been doing some work lately (that will be fodder for future posts) on more of the end-to-end integration story with SharePoint and other applications, and using claims authentication to flow identity across application boundaries. One of the specific points I’ve been working on lately is being able to make a call to a claims…
Configuring SharePoint 2010 and ADFS v2 End to End
In this post I’m going to do an end-to-end walk through on how to configure SharePoint 2010 and ADFS v2 together to use SAML claims authentication. I’ll includes steps and PowerShell scripts to demonstrate and will try and bring all of the pieces together in one big posting. First a brief overview of the components…
SharePoint 2010 Forms Based Authentication Configuration Manager
I found myself getting really tired of constantly modifying configuration files when setting up forms based auth (FBA) in SharePoint 2010. There's even more work now then there was in the previous release, because now we have an additional web.config file to modify – for the STS. It was also a constant hassle when you…
Writing A Custom Forms Login Page for SharePoint 2010 Part 2
In part 1 of this series, which you can find at http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/07/21/writing-a-custom-forms-login-page-for-sharepoint-2010-part-1.aspx, I described how to create an entirely new forms login page. The scenario behind it is when you need something beyond what is available with the out of the box UI – for example, two factor authentication. In this post I’m going to…
Writing A Custom Forms Login Page for SharePoint 2010 Part 1
In SharePoint 2007 writing a custom login page for a forms based authentication (FBA) site was not too terribly hard. There were a few things to know, most of which weren’t SharePoint specific, and some tips to have your login form take on the look and feel of a standard SharePoint layouts page. Overall though,…
Migrating from Windows Classic Auth to Windows Claims Auth in SharePoint 2010 Part 2
NOTE: UPDATED 1/8/2011 I wanted to follow-up on the previous post about migrating authentiation types in SharePoint 2010 that was done here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/06/12/migrating-a-web-application-from-windows-classic-to-windows-claims-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx. I still recommend taking a look at that posting if you haven't already because it includes some good background information about the migration process. Recently we've been tweaking with the set ot…
Managing Trusted Root Authorities for Claims Authentication in SharePoint 2010 Central Admin
I just thought I would create this post to raise awareness about another way to manage trusted root authorities in SharePoint 2010. For those of you who have been doing claims authentication sites, you know that you need to add all of the certificates in the token signing certificate's chain into SharePoint's list of trusted…