Today's post combines a few different topics, that dare I say, started as a dare (I think). The gauntlet thrown out was whether or not Remote SharePoint Index would work for SAML users as well as Windows users. For those of you not completely familiar with Remote SharePoint Index, I covered it in some detail in my blog…
Tag: SharePoint 2013
SAML in a Box – Inviting External Users to Your SharePoint Farm
Those of you who follow the Share-n-Dipity blog know that I don’t really do much in the way of product endorsements. However, you have probably also figured out that I’m a big SAML fan, so when a friend of mine recently released a new product for this market it really caught my eye. If you’ve…
SAML Support for SharePoint-Hosted Apps with ADFS 3.0
This is another case where I'm just passing information along here, based on the great work of others. As you probably know, we did not have a good story for SharePoint-hosted apps in web application that uses SAML authentication with ADFS 2.0. However, I have had reports from a couple of different teams now that…
Changes To Know About When Your SharePoint STS Token Signing Certificate Expires – the Impact to Your High Trust Applications
This is a another follow up to my earlier post on changing the token signing certificate for the SharePoint STS as described here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2014/05/06/updating-trust-between-onprem-farms-and-acs-for-apps-when-your-sharepoint-sts-token-signing-certificate-expires.aspx. As I mentioned in that post, you will undoubtedly wind up in this situation if you configure your farm to use low trust apps, because as part of creating the trust…
Missing Context Token in Low Trust App with SharePoint 2013 – Part 2
As I noted in my first post on this topic – http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2013/05/28/missing-context-token-in-low-trust-app-with-sharepoint-2013.aspx – you may find yourself in a low trust app without a context token, which basically leaves you up the creek without a paddle. I ran across another scenario where this was happening so thought I would add it to my list of app…
Create a List in the Host Web When Your SharePoint App is Installed…and Remove it from the Recent Stuff List
This is one of those questions that I've seen asked a lot but for some reason I've never really seen anyone post an answer to it. I did a quick Bing search before writing this post but didn't really see anything up there so I'm going to go out on a bit of a limb…
Claim Type Exceptions with Custom Claims Providers in SharePoint 2013
This issue applies to SharePoint 2010 as well but…suppose you have created a custom claims provider and one of the things you want to do is to have some custom claim types that you use. What I mean by custom claim types is just that they are not one of the standard out of the…
More Info on an Old Friend – the Custom Claims Provider, Uri Parameters and EntityTypes in SharePoint 2013
Back to oldie but a goodie – the custom claims provider for SharePoint. I believe this applies to SharePoint 2010 as well but honestly I have only tested what I'm about to describe on SharePoint 2013 and don't have the bandwidth to go back and do a 2010 test as well. What I wanted to…
Integrating Yammer and SharePoint 2013 Search Results
This post is in response to a question I get pretty frequently when talking about Yammer. The question that many folks want to know is "how can I crawl my Yammer content from SharePoint?" Well, unfortunately you can't, and I have no trick up my sleeve to show you otherwise today to say otherwise. However,…
Programmatically Adding A Trusted Identity Token Issuer to a Web Application Zone in SharePoint 2010 and 2013
Seems like I haven't had a chance to write a good SharePoint / SAML claims kind of article in a while. I was happily plugging away on some code this weekend for a scenario I haven't done before so I thought I would go ahead and post it here for the search engines. The whole…