Recent changes in Chrome to improve cookie security required flags being set on the cookies in order for them to continue to function cross-domain. Microsoft released patches to SharePoint to implement the flags – however the flags also require the cookie to be marked SECURE and now only allows the cookies to function with HTTPS/SSL. […]
The SharePoint 2016 FBA Pack has been released. It was ported from the SharePoint 2013 FBA Pack (which was originally ported from the SharePoint 2007 CKS Forms Based Authentication Solution), and includes all of the features from the SharePoint 2013 FBA Pack: User Management Role Management Membership Request Web Part Password Recovery Web Part Change Password […]
I was recently interviewed about the FBA Pack by Jonathan Allen of InfoQ. The interview is here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/05/SharePoint-FBA
The SharePoint 2013 FBA Pack has been released. It was ported from the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack (which was originally ported from the SharePoint 2007 CKS Forms Based Authentication Solution), and includes all of the features from the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack: User Management Role Management Membership Request Web Part Password Recovery Web Part Change Password […]
I recently came across a problem while crawling a BCS data source in SharePoint 2010. Most of the 130,000 records were getting indexed, but I was getting an error on 25 records: Error while crawling LOB contents. ( ‘.’, hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 25, position 10. ) When I first took […]
Below is a PowerShell script for deleting a filtered list of users from a SharePoint site. Simply copy the script to a .ps1 file, adjust the $SITEURL to the url of the site and adjust the $USERNAMEFILTER to a lowercase string that is contained in all of the usernames you would like to delete. The […]
Have you ever wanted to have mixed https and http content in SharePoint? By that I mean a login page and user pages secured by https, while the rest of the content is delivered unsecured via http. Having the content either all http or all https is a breeze, but I wanted to be able […]