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.

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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.

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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…

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