SharePoint MySites and One-Way Trusts
This is mostly an addendum to the One-Way Trust series I ended with this post. If you read the previous post you probably already have a decent understanding as to what effects a One-Way Trust imposes on your SharePoint environment. To put it simply, any time a SharePoint Web Application needs to read or verify Active Directory information from the other side of a One-Way Trust it will not be able to do so without credentials from that domain.
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…
