SharePoint Search Result URL Mismatch
I came across this issue today and figured since I was already explaining the issue to the customer I might as well blog about it. The issue is where search results from other sites in the same SharePoint Farm are showing up with the wrong URL. At least the URL is wrong for the end-users, but not wrong as far as SharePoint is concerned as we will see below.
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 2 of 3…
Now that you have the Trust configured between your hosted SharePoint domain and your local domain, as described in Part 1 of this series, you probably wish to configure the People Picker for one or more of your Web Applications so you can search for users to add from your local Active Directory environment.
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…
Easy-Bake Forms Based Authentication
In a hosted environment I often see situations where a customer wants to quickly and easily add Forms Based Authentication to their SharePoint Web Application. Unfortunately, it is neither quick nor easy to add this functionality, and often requires development tools outside of SharePoint and SQL to accomplish (such as Visual Web Developer Studio Express).
Since I do this about once a week I came up with an easier and less time consuming method that does not require any tools outside of SQL, SharePoint and the CKS-FBAManagement Solution from the CodePlex community. Read on…
