SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack Released

SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack on CodePlex:
http://sharepoint2010fba.codeplex.com/

The FBA Pack is a collection of web parts and tools for managing forms based authentication in SharePoint 2010. It is a port of the SharePoint 2007 CKS Forms Based Authentication Solution to SharePoint 2010. It has been changed extensively to work with SharePoint 2010′s claims based authentication and has been restructured to use Visual Studio 2010′s new SharePoint project type.

SharePoint 2010 can be configured out of the box to authenticate against an ASP.NET Membership database, but strangely it does not include any tools for managing membership users and roles, or any web parts to allow new users to register or to change/reset their password. That’s where the FBA Pack comes in.

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SharePoint 2010 Power User Course - Portland, OR

SharePoint Innovations is offering SharePoint 2010 Power User course next week from Portland, OR and Live Online.

Register Online at http://www.sharepointinnovations.com/sharepoint-training/schedule.aspx

SharePoint 2010 FBA User Manager Tool

http://sharepoint2010fba.codeplex.com

Forms Based Authentication (FBA) User Management Tool for SharePoint 2010.

Have fun!

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SharePoint 2010 FBA Config Update Utility

Here is a really nice tool that you can use to update web.config on your web apps all at the same time..

http://fbaconfigmanager.codeplex.com

Have a great weekend!!!

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SharePoint 2010 Content Type Hub

§Create a New Site Collection called “ctypehub”, Teamsite Template – Content Type Hub – “http://tpserver/sites/ctypehub”

§Enable the ‘Content Type Syndication Hub’ feature in Site Collection Settings

§Create the Content Types we want to publish out (SPI Base, SPI Training etc.) from the hub

§Update the Metadata Management Service (MMS) properties

–Central Administration -> Application Management -> Manage Service Applications then click on the ’Managed Metadata Service’ row and then select ‘Properties

–Scroll to the bottom and type in the full URL of the Site Collection that we have set up as our Site Collection Hub (recommend to copy-paste carefully, this can’t be changed in the UI once its setup, need to use Powershell for modification)

–Central Administration -> Application Management -> Manage Service Applications then click on the ’ Managed Metadata Service Connection’ row and then select ‘Properties‘.

–Check ‘Consumes content types from the Content Type Gallery..‘

§Publish the Content Types

–Select the content type we created and click on ‘Manage publishing for this content type‘, click on ‘OK‘ to publish this guy out!

–Go to Central Administration -> Monitoring -> Review Job Definitions and run the Content Type Hub job, then run the Content Type Subscriber job in that order.

§On the main portal, go to Site Settings | Site Collection Administration | Content Type Publishing

You can see all the published content types here J

Happy Friday!!

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SharePoint 2010 Local Website Access - Loopback Fix

Cause

Windows Server 2003 SP1 introduced a loopback security check. This feature is also present in Windows Server 2008 R2.

The feature prevents access to a web application using a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) if an attempt to access it takes place from a machine that hosts that application. The end result is a 401.1 Access Denied from the web server and a logon failure in the event log.

Another problem is that the search crawler failing

Resolution

Apply the fix mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861 only for DEV environments.

Method 2: Disable the loopback check

To set the DisableLoopbackCheck registry key, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
3. Right-click Lsa, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
7. Quit Registry Editor, and then restart your computer.

Happy Wednesday!!!

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SharePoint 2010 Foundation / Search Server Express 2010 Install Prerequisites

-    Web Server (IIS) role

Application Server role

Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1

Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 (x64)

Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0

Microsoft Chart Controls for the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

Windows PowerShell 2.0

SQL Server 2008 Native Client

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services ADOMD.NET

ADO.NET Data Services Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

A hotfix for the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 that provides a method to support token authentication without transport security or message encryption in WCF.

Windows Identity Foundation (WIF)

SharePoint 2010 Install - Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client: download error

When installing SharePoint 2010, you may see the following error in the SharePoint 2010 preparation tool “Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client: download error”

Solution: Install the SQL Native client and then re-run the preparation tool. You need to run sqlncli.msi file which can be found in your Microsoft SQL Server 2008 install media.

In Microsoft SQL 2008 R2, it is located here: 1033_ENU_LP\x64\Setup\x64\sqlncli.msi

You can also download it directly from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123718&clcid=0×409

Good night!

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SharePoint 2010 Explorer View On Windows 2008 R2

Just a quick solution in case you ever get the following message when trying to open a SharePoint Document Library in explorer view from Windows Server 2008

Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer.

This is due to the fact that Explorer view uses the WebDav protocol to connect to SharePoint from the client.  As Windows Server is not designed to be a client, the WebDav client is not installed or enabled by default.  

In order to enable the WebDav client (along with other client features such as Windows Media Player and Desktop Themes) on a server (you’re not doing this on a production server, right?), simply enable the Desktop Experience feature.

Enjoy!

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SharePoint 2010 Development using TFS 2010 and VS 2010

Our core SP 2010 enterprise app dev is done using VS 2010 and TFS 2010

This is a great read ... https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/devwiki/articles/Pages/SharePoint-ALM-with-Continues-Integration.aspx


Enjoy!

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10th Anniversary of SharePoint

SharePoint has come a long way and this week Microsoft is celebrating its 10th anniversary!

WOW! still member the STS days??

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Search Server Express 2010 Install

If you are considering using free version of SharePoint 2010, which is SharePoint 2010 Foundation, go with Search Server Express 2010 ( Search Server is built on top of SharePoint Foundation).

When you install Search Server Express 2010, you will get all functionalities of SharePoint 2010 Foundation and SharePoint enterprise search features - all free, but some limitations including 10 million items for the index.

All machines in a farm MUST run the same product, so you cannot have a Search Server Express machine in a SharePoint foundation farm.

The way to configure this is to use just install Search Server Express on all the machines and put them in the same farm. This way you have the advanced search web parts and ability to search without additional configuration. The Search Server Express Search Service Application is limited to components only running on one machine, but you can have multiple machines in the farm. The machines you would have put Foundation on will still have all the features of Foundation (since Search server is built on foundation) and can perform all the normal Foundation roles. The machine you configure to run the Search Service application can just service the search components/services

Yes, enjoy the free SharePoint 2010 lunch with Search Server Express 2010!!! :-)

SharePoint 2010 Forrester Research Video

Great video about SP 2010 customer case studies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzKywWlf5oY

Happy Friday!!!

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