I have been thinking about this for a little while, but finally found a reason to make it myself. If you have worked with Windows Identity Foundation SDK in the past you might have spotted a very handy utility called FedUtil.exe. If you installed the SDK in the default location its located at “C:\Program Files [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Claims’
Displaying personal session Claims in SP2010 with BCS
I have seen some posts on the web showing how to display session claims for the logged in user by iterating through the claims HttpContext.Current.User in a webpart. However it seemed a bit dull for SharePoint 2010 which has so much fire in its belly. I quite like the concept of Business Connectivity Services (BCS) [...]
Populating SharePoint picker entity with additional attributes
When granting permission to an individual or a group within SharePoint 2010 picker picker is used to identify then pick the person or group. Identifying is based on the display text shown to the user in a table format. This display text may not be enough for the user to identify the person correctly. This [...]
Custom SPClaimsProvider for SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer
After you have configured a SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer in your farm and enabled this provider as an authentication provider for a web application you should be able to see this provider in people picker as a top level node. You might be a little disappointed at this stage if you tried to search anything in the picker. Any text [...]
Custom sign in page URL for SharePoint – quick way
If you have tried to create a SharePoint web application in 2010 with multiple authentication providers you might have felt the need for a custom sign in page. SharePoint 2010 ships with a custom page that contains a drop down and allows the user to select the authentication provider of their choice. This however does [...]
