I know this has been a pain of varying magnitudes for folks over the last couple of years, so I thought I would share some nice PowerShell I stumbled upon recently. It allows you to export the token signing certificate of the local SharePoint farm's STS. You can then use this for things like getting…
Tag: SharePoint 2010
Where Are My Share-n-Dipity Posts?
Hey folks, just an FYI that, in case you haven’t noticed, things have gone a little quiet on the blog. Nothing sinister at play here, we’ve just covered a LOT of stuff over the last couple of years and we’re well into the SharePoint 2010 product cycle. In addition, I changed focus a few weeks…
Make Sure You Know This About SharePoint 2010 Claims Authentication – Sticky Sessions Are REQUIRED
Hey folks, I’m here to tell you that I too now have my own story of getting burned by an anomaly of using claims authentication that I wish would have been clearer to me. This is such a fundamental aspect of deploying it that I want to make sure I call it out front and…
Retrieving REST Data Using NTLM From a Dual Auth Site in SharePoint 2010
The title of this post actually makes this sound a lot more complicated than the final solution. It's really a case of combining the techniques I discussed in two previous posts: http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/09/25/retrieving-rest-data-in-a-claims-based-auth-site-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx and http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2011/04/01/retrieving-data-from-a-multi-auth-site-using-the-client-om-and-web-services-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx. The short version of the scenario is this – some folks wanted to do a something like a health check ping…
The CASI Kit Announcement from SharePoint Conference
Just wanted to update folks with the announcement made at the SharePoint Conference yesterday regarding the CASI Kit. I have decided to release everything for it – full source code to the base class, the web part, and all of the sample projects – up to CodePlex. If you go to casikit.codeplex.com now you can…
Facebook DataView WebPart Code from SharePoint Conference
For those of you who attended my SPC 351 session at SharePoint Conference today (Hitting the Ground Running with Claims Authentication), there was a request for some source code. As promised, I'm attaching a zip file with the source to the Facebook DataView WebPart I demonstrated. It's based on using ACS to log into a…
Working with Social Tags in SharePoint 2010
NOTE: Please download the attachment to get a Word doc with this posting in human readable format. I had an interesting request recently from someone that wanted help essentially being able to migrate social tags between two different farms. There are some things out of the box that can help you do this, and some…
Major Announcement for CASI Kit Coming at SharePoint Conference 2011
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…
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…