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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides the Microsoft Single Sign-On (SSO) service for storage and mapping of credentials for use in connecting with third-party or back-end systems. By examining various scenarios, MOSS SSO proves to be a good fit in SharePoint projects which requires user impersonation into service accounts to enable ...

  Whether you are a SharePoint 2007(MOSS) developer or an administrator, you probably have seen a MOSS error page with the error message: “unknown error” or “unexpected error”, where these error messages do not give enough information about what happened, more logging is taking place behind the scenes. In order to troubleshoot the underlying ...

So on my first look at the Managed References SDK for SharePoint 2010 contained in the technical preview (downloaded your copy from here) I noticed something very interesting the “Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell” namespace. On closer inspection of the classes defined in the SDK it would appear SharePoint 2010 is going to use PowerShell ...

While working on a client site recently I was asked to hide the site actions menu and only allow certain users to view it. After a bit of digging around and searching I found the answer to be the “SPSecurityTrimmedControl”. Now the great thing about this control is that it only renders the contents of the controls it contains if the user has a ...

Well it’s been a while since I have done a blog entry so I thought I would ease myself back into them with a small post about how to debug a hidden feature. As everyone knows in SharePoint you have the ability to make a feature hidden which means it doesn’t show up via the UI. This is useful if you don’t want users deactivating or activating a ...

Now, I may be a little slow on the uptake here but I have just found out that as of the 1st of April this year Microsoft released SharePoint Designer as a free download to all SharePoint customers.  This is great news for the businesses who have invested in SharePoint over the last few years and will save a great deal on licence fees I'm ...

A few support queries and tweets have come up recently about our support for 64-bit Sharepoint (WSS or MOSS) with Scrum for Team System v2.2 and TFS.  The crux of the issue seems to be the ability of the installer to detect the location of WSS as it is not looking in the correct place in the registry to support both 32 and 64-bit installers, ...

The latest release of the Accessibility kit for SharePoint has been released today. AKS v2.0 introduces updates that allow MOSS users to create and implement sites that conform to the WCAG 2.0 Level AA candidate recommendation in the United States. This is done through a series of updated and or different Master Pages, CSS and Control Adapters ...

Gartner have highlighted mashups as a growth area for 2009 and predict that ''by 2012, one-third of analytic applications applied to business processes will be delivered through coarse-grained application mashups'' in the Five Predictions report. I have been looking at harnessing the power of mixing geographic visualisation techniques with ...

I heard rumours earlier in the week that PerformancePoint was going to be changing and colleagues had found various snippets of news online, but there are now details on the The Microsoft BI Blog - it looks like Planning is going to be discontinued (after SP3) and  Monitoring will be included in MOSS - makes sense with the new strategy / road ...