Tag: SharePoint 2010

Top 10 SharePoint 2010 Configuration Mistakes -- and How to Fix Them
Top 10 SharePoint 2010 Configuration Mistakes — and How to Fix Them
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is a complicated beast, with more knobs and levels than you can shake a stick at. It’s no wonder we get some of them wrong from time to time. Over the past year and a half of installing SharePoint 2010, I’ve seen quite a few configuration mistakes, mostly at my own hands. In this article, I’ll cover 10 of these errors. I’ll explain what the correct configuration is, why it’s correct, and how to correct the setting in your farm. If you make all the changes in this article, you’ll have the beginnings of a beautiful farm — and one less likely to be ridiculed by your friends and neighbors.

The One Thing: Steve Fox and SharePoint 2010
The One Thing: Steve Fox and SharePoint 2010
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Steve Fox, Director of Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft, shares his thoughts on the one thing that people need to know about SharePoint 2010. This is part of ‘The One Thing’ video series produced by Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) and the Axceler team.

How to Manually Disable Claims Authentication in SharePoint 2010
How to Manually Disable Claims Authentication in SharePoint 2010
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In a previous post I shared some thoughts regarding changes to authentication providers in SharePoint 2010. As I worked through the issue of removing Claims/FBA and reverting to NTLM I discovered a number of issues that manifested themselves in strange ways. The first problem I encountered was the inability for a Farm account to make changes to the Authentication Providers settings in Central Administration. The System Account couldn’t even view the dialog – each attempt resulted in a 403 error. This was bad news as a lot of things happen behind the scenes when changing authentication settings in this dialog – not the least of which is propagation of changes to all the web servers. This meant I would have to undo all of the Claims settings manually and repeat them on each server. Not my idea of a fun afternoon.