Yesterday I went trough and interesting analysis with Matias about how is the best way to tweak the SAML Token Lifetime for Sharepoint 2010 web applications using ADFS as a Claims Auth provider. We have basically three cookies to worry about in this scenario. The Authentication cookie, the Account partner cookie and the SharePoint... read more
It is up to the application to do a proper federated sign-out and Sharepoint 2010 OOB is not doing this in the correct way. If you take a look at the HTTP conversation with fiddler Sharepoint will not call the wa=wsignout1.0 action on ADFS, it will simply clean the current authentication cookie. How to configure... read more
Ayer tuvimos una tremenda conferencia técnica con mucha gente que se acercó a discutir el tema de la nube. Hay algo de material que surgió del evento y agrego en este post para quienes quieran un punto de partida para crear su nube privada con SCVMM. Pueden descargar la presentación de la conferencia acá http://cid-5f9c7b75bd402dda.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Pub/Conf%5E_Cloud%5E_20100518/Conferencia%20Tecnica%20-%20Cloud.pdf... read more
I wanted to begin using VMM allocation reports properly and I needed to update every Virtual Machine “Cost Center” attribute. We currently have more than 120 VMs on our Lab so I decided to write a powershell script to automate this task. The “Cost Center” y a so called Custom Property of the Virtual Machine... read more
Próximo Martes 18 de Mayo a las 18:30 Hs en Microsoft Argentina (Bouchard 710 4to Piso) vamos a ahondar junto con el IT-Monster Leandro Amore en el estado del arte de las nubes haciendo un trabajo fino sobre nubes privadas. Registrense aca! https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032450458&culture=es-AR Tenemos planeada una conferencia de ~2Horas tocando los siguientes temas: Intro: El... read more
Exchange deployment is not necessary to take profit of Sharepoint email capabilities. Transform a email to a given address into an item on a list is a powerful feature to empower your Information worker collaboration capabilities. Incoming and outcoming email configuration It is finally working on my Sharepoint Server. Now you can configure your Email... read more
Hola a todos, quiero recordarles que este 21 de Abril será el evento virtual de lanzamiento de 11 importantes productos y donde muchos MVPs estaran como speakers y como expertos para resolver tus dudas.
Summary Cloud computing, Infrastructure and Platform as a Service is becoming a key business enabler for the CIO of any mid-sized company. Why are hosted services a key enabler for small IT departments? Easy, inherent complexity in a growing business makes it very hard to keep a great level of service constantly while the months... read more
I have found many post in the web about how easy is to develop and debug custom Visual Webpart, here are a couple of great references http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2010/01/28/creating-a-sharepoint-visual-web-part-using-visual-studio-2010.aspx http://www.helloitsliam.com/archive/2009/10/20/sharepoint-2010-–-create-a-visual-web-part.aspx http://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/nielsen_travis/Pages/Post.aspx?_ID=32 The problem is that there is not much talking about how to deploy the packaged Webpart on a different server. I run into this issue following... read more
Well, I spent a couple of days working with the Sharepoint 2010 Beta and have a couple of IMPORTANT Operational Tips to keep in mind when managing the Beta at least. I have an on-premise deployment (pre-production) and a cloud deployment on Amazon EC2 (production) and in both places I run into issues by limiting... read more