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…
