SharePoint, Session State and Inactivity Timeouts
A common request I see is to have SharePoint timeout a user after a specified period of inactivity and force them to logon again. The feasibility of this depends on how you use SharePoint and how your users authenticate in the first place.
Active Directory Trusts, Sharepoint and You – Part 1 of 3…
A large percentage of Sharepoint environments are used for Intranet Collaboration. When used with Active Directory you get convenient features such as Integrated Authentication, Centralized User Management, Profile Imports, etc. In a hosted environment customers typically want to maintain all of the advantages that Sharepoint offers while putting their environment in a highly available datacenter and have it supported by a team of dedicated experts.
In this three part series I am going to step through the process of linking a remotely hosted Sharepoint environment to a local Active Directory network safely and securely. Read on…
How NOT to configure a VM test environment…
Step 1: Configure a Virtual Machine and install Windows Server 2003/2008
Step 2: Make a clone of that VM to spawn additional VMs
Step 3: Configure separate Active Directory Domains in 2 of the cloned VMs and attempt to create a Trust between them
Step 4: Fail…
Read on…
