I was doing a demonstration today with SharePoint Designer and content types in SharePoint and thought I would venture out of my typical examples and create a fun example. Well, as is Murphy’s law, I was unable to get the example working. I was attempting to create a new custom Web Part page in SharePoint [...]

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There can be many, many issues to troubleshoot in a SharePoint server environment. Recently one of my clients was receiving a Service Unavailable error while trying to access the Web pages or any service provided by a Web application. If the Web application pool is unable to start you will receive this error. One of the ways [...]

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In the previous blog you learned how to setup and configure Single Sign-On (SSO) for SharePoint. In the SSO environment, the back-end or external data sources are referred to as “enterprise applications”. An enterprise application definition needs to be configured for each external data source that SharePoint will connect to. After you have started the SSO service, [...]

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As you learned in a previous blog, Single Sign-On (SSO) enables SharePoint users to authenticate only once when they access applications through SharePoint sites. In this blog I will review the steps necessary to configure SSO in your SharePoint farm. Before we proceed with the configuration the following conditions must be met:

Your server must belong [...]

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One of the advantages of using SSO in SharePoint 2007 is that your users can have access to back-end data or external data from SharePoint without having to authenticate to the outside source. Users can view, create, and modify information on these sources based on the mapping between the user credentials to the external sources. [...]

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