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I found someone who understands Kerberos!

Submitted by Tristan on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 23:17

Over the years I've read dozens if not hundreds of blog posts about Kerberos and have always been left wondering.. what? And none of them have solved the cries of agony from Windows administrators and the "can't we just use NTLM?" crowd.

Installing Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 RTW

Submitted by Tristan on Sun, 07/11/2010 - 23:01

I’m preparing a post about Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) 2.0 and SharePoint 2010 Integration, to tie in to my previous claims based authentication article.  Here’s a step by step guide to installing Active Directory Federation Services 2.0.

SharePoint 2010 Event Receivers can be Synchronous or Asynchronous

Submitted by Tristan on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 16:44

I'm digging around the newly-released SharePoint 2010 SDK.  I'll put up a post in the near future summarising the changes to security, but in the meantime here's one change I noted:    after (-ed) event receivers can now be run synchronously! 

SharePoint Server 2010 and Sharepoint Foundation 2010 SDK has been released

Submitted by Tristan on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 15:01

The SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation 2010 SDK (Software Development Kit) has officially been released from Microsoft.

It's available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=...
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SharePoint Designer 2010 Release To Manufacturing (RTM) now available

Submitted by Tristan on Mon, 04/26/2010 - 17:44

Fresh from the SharePoint designer team blog: SharePoint Designer 2010 has hit RTM, and is now available for download on Microsoft.com. It's available in 32bit and 64bit flavors.  

Download links:

Google discloses content removal requests from Government - sorted by population

Submitted by Tristan on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 13:08

The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has published a site revealing the number of content removal requests received from Governments around the world.  Google also provides data revealing the number of data requests from Governments.

Visual Studio 2010 RC, SharePoint 2010 RC, and Forefront for SharePoint 2010 RC!

Submitted by Tristan on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 14:00

Microsoft have released the Release Candidate versions of Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint 2010, and Forefront Protection for SharePoint 2010!

Office 2010 RC released

Submitted by Tristan on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 11:08

Neowin.net reports that the first release candidates (RC) of Office 2010, both server and client versions,  have been released to testers. I'm looking forward to testing SharePoint integration!

SharePoint 2010 and Windows Identity Foundation presentation

Submitted by Tristan on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 23:16

There’s a great video on SharePoint 2010 and how it uses Windows Identity Foundation here. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC26  It was delivered by Sesha Mani, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. I recommend checking it out!

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