Information for Developers and IT Professionals

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Access Control with SharePoint Groups

SharePoint groups are defined at the site collection level, and consist of a set of SPMember objects, being these either individuals or groups.

Access control is achieved by assigning each group a permission level (called a role), and assigning this to a particular securable object (called a securable scope inside SharePoint).

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Claims Based authentication in SharePoint 2010

Microsoft have recently updated their protocols information for SharePoint, incorporating a number of SharePoint 2010 changes. Included in the updates is information about claims based authentication in SharePoint 2010.

As we collect more information, this page will be updated. Some notes so far:

The protocols mentioned are:

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Enterprise Search Custom Security Trimmer

SharePoint's search engine can remove particular search results from view by using what Microsoft call a "security trimmer".

A custom security trimmer is implemented as a .NET class that implements the ISecurityTrimmer interface, which provides for two methods:

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Understanding Active Directory (AD)

This article gives an overview of the key concepts used in Active Directory. In simple terms, Active Directory (AD) is about managing resources.

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Using the People Picker Editor picker control

Here is some code that demonstrates how to use the SharePoint People picker PeopleEditor control inside a WebPart.

screenshot of the sharepoint people editor control

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