Defender Performance Tuning
Defender Deployment Tool
QR Phishing with MDO
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Install MDE with SaltStack
MDI Learning Periods
SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure App Fabric Access Control (ACS)
Last month I was working on a demo for a charitable organization that has lots of volunteers around the country. The charity didn't want to have to create new active directory accounts for each of these volunteers so as part of the demo we integrated SharePoint 2010 site with Windows Azure App Fabric Access Control (ACS), this way we could use Google, Windows Live, and Yahoo! as authentication providers. (Yes I know we could hook directly to each of these providers, but using ACS allowed me to use all the providers with one SharePoint Trusted Provider instead of using three different trust providers). We demoed the site to the charity and they were very excited and happy with the solution.
Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint List Template Error
I was attempting to create a custom FAST Search Center that would have a custom master page, and some web parts added to the search and result pages. My starting point was to grab the FAST Search Center site definition from the site templates in the SharePoint 14 Hive.
SQL Server Date vs. DateTime columns and the SharePoint 2010 External Content Type
Recently I have been working on a SharePoint 2010 solution that leverages External Content Types for storing information associated with Microsoft Dynamics Great Planes Timesheets. Part of the information captures when an task is expected to be completed, which the UI allows the user to select a date from a calendar. Since the only significant information for this field was the date when I designed the database I chose to only capture the date value. Testing on my local Windows 7 VM worked perfectly and we rolled the solution out to the customer for testing.
Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration
Recently I was contacted by PACKT Publishing because they have recently published a book **Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration** and wanted me to review the book. I’m actually quite excited about this opportunity because it is my first invitation to review a book, and the book is talking about two of my favorite technologies!
SharePoint and Membership Providers
Many SharePoint developers have come from a background with ASP.NET and so most are familiar with the Membership Provider concept. SharePoint uses ASP.NET at its core the membership providers you have build for custom web applications can be used in your SharePoint web application. The advantage of this is that you can abstract your web parts, application pages, etc in SharePoint so they use the Membership Provider to get user information rather than coding your own Active Directory calls into a library or the web part/application page itself.
SharePoint Lists Web Service
During a recent project I was leveraging the SharePoint Lists Web Service to retrieve information from a list and push it to a Silverlight display. The list I was using was a heavily customized list with about 35 different views and at least as may fields. My Silverlight display would provide information like the “status” of the list item based on a number of other criteria. This status field was stored as a simple “Single line of text” field in the SharePoint list.
A WCF "WHAT THE..."
I’ve been working with WCF and SharePoint 2007 and ran across an issue. The scenario is an Account Registration process which allows the user to request access to “protected” sites within a portal. This solution blends some jQuery and WCF using the JSON format for request and response messages. The issue I ran into was when a user requested access to a/several sites I needed to pass the Site ID to the WCF service as part of the user request object.