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…
Tag: SharePoint 2010
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…
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…
You May Experience Slowness When Using SAML Claims with SharePoint 2010
Hey folks, our good friend Adam C. in SharePoint support recently alerted the folks here with a complaint we're seeing come up more frequently from customers that are using SAML claims. It starts out as taking a very long time to log into a site using SAML authentication. If you monitor the requests via a…
PSConfig Fails with Missing / Required Error Message After Applying CU or Service Pack in SharePoint 2010
I had this happen with a CU recently, and I saw someone that had the same problem with SP1. You download and install some patch – a CU or service pack. The final step after installation is to run psconfig on each server in the farm. However, psconfig tells you that it can't proceed because…
Name Disappears After Selecting in People Picker with Custom Claims Provider in SharePoint 2010
I recently witnessed a problem that proved to be fairly difficult to track down so I thought I would share the issue and resolution. In this case, a custom claims provider had been developed and it was being used as the default claim provider for the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer, as described here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/04/28/how-to-override-the-default-name-resolution-and-claims-provider-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx. It may appear to be…
Using SAML Claims in SharePoint 2010 with Host Header Sites
Someone one posed an interesting question to me the other day, around whether or not you could use SAML claims with host header sites in SharePoint 2010. My initial thought was yes but I wanted to dig into it a little bit more to investigate. The short answer to all this is yes, but it's…
Federating Shibboleth, Ping Federate and Oracle Access Manager with SharePoint 2010
Hey folks wanted to let you know about some other federation whitepapers that have come out recently. Please see the following if interested: ADFS with Shibboleth – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/card/archive/2010/10/22/ad-fs-2-0-step-by-step-guide-federation-with-shibboleth-2-and-the-incommon-federation.aspx ADFS with Ping Federate – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/card/archive/2010/11/23/ad-fs-2-0-step-by-step-guide-federation-with-ping-identity-pingfederate.aspx ADFS with Oracle Access Manager – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/card/archive/2010/08/02/ad-fs-2-0-step-by-step-guide-federation-with-oracle-identity-federation.aspx There are also three labs from P&P team: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/card/archive/2010/09/03/demonstrating-federation-interop-with-ca-ibm-and-sun-products.aspx