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SharePoint 2010 FBA and Sliding Sessions

This is to provide a little bit of explanation on the implementation of FBA authentication with SP 2010. There have been blog posts that indicate there are no sliding sessions, but with a little manipulation and understanding of some of the settings, there is somewhat of support for sliding sessions

Adding and Removing SPClaimProvider via PowerShell

There are really 2 ways to get a SPClaimProvider registered – 1 via a Farm Feature activation. The other is via PowerShell. However, the documentation on how to remove is not that clear. The following code will remove it based upon a TypeName. Other identifiers can be used. In order to

Know what Process is calling your SPClaimProvider

If you’re writing a custom SharePoint Claims Provider (SPClaimProvider) in order to augment claims, it’s important to also understand what process is executing your specific code path. In the situation where you are making calls to a DB or service endpoint you will need to understand which process

Forcing use of the same Master Page in sub-sites without Publishing

This seems to come up a few times. The following sample script in PS applies a common master page across all SPWebs in a site collection. $site = Get-SPSite http://fba.contosotest.com/dv1 $site | Get-SPWeb -limit all | ForEach-Object { $_.MasterUrl = "/dv1/_catalogs/masterpage/custom_v4.master";$_.Update() } $site.Dispose(

How does the Windows Azure Fabric controller do that?

Kevin Williamson has a great post on the overall flow of things from the point of publishing of your package up on the Windows Azure Developer Portal to Run(). These are good things to know as many times you need to inject steps, tasks, context at various stages of your

CloudNinja - Windows Azure Multi-tenant Sample - Home

So, as one of the OneTAP leads for Windows Azure focusing on the BizSpark folks, I run into many questions regarding HOWTO and in areas of Auto-Scaling, provisioning, authentication. The folks at Full Scale 180 (http://www.fullscale180.com) have created a nice sample application that demonstrates the following: Key

Welcomed Addition to the WIF Family–SAML-P WIF Extension CTP

This is a very nice addition and will make development across the various WebSSO protocols that much easier. Announcing the WIF Extension for SAML 2.0 Protocol Community Technology Preview! - Claims-Based Identity Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs