Overview : Most large enterprises using SharePoint have implement Extranet solutions and these vary in complexity greatly.  Many implementa...

Overview :  I have worked with and evaluated a couple of Services and Federation Server products.  Here is an old pot of setting up claims,...

Overview :  I have a pretty simple requirement to allow users to register on my customers public SharePoint 2013 web sites.  I have setup c...

Problem :  Developer wants to retrieve values from the users claim to send an email. Intial Hypothesis:   Create a web part to demonstrat...

There are articles on building web parts to display claims on a page which can be a useful tool. http://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/nielsen...

Problem : Claims Base Authentication (CBA) requires swapping certificates with each machine that will use CBA on a development domain, if y...

Overview : Steve Plank has a great video on "How ADFS and the Microsoft Federation Gateway work together up in the Office 365 Cloud...

When you log into SharePoint using Claims Based Authentication, a cookie is written/persisted to ​disk (FedAuth) to persist your session, w...

Problem : We have written a custom claims membership provider, it works in development however if fails in the UAT environment.  The Member...

Problem : What is the best approach for an extranet? Hypothesis: You are implement SharePoint 2010 and you need users to have remote acce...

Non-Active Directory users in MOSS could support Forms Based Authentication (FBA) so can use SQL to authenticate users, or other providers....

What is Claims based authentication? Allows SharePoint to communicate with external membership providers over open communication standards...