With newer releases of IE and Office, we’re seeing more and more of our SharePoint sites using claims authentication present users with login prompts directly in Office applications. As a security best practice, we avoid leaving persistent cookies around on end user devices. The only issue with this is that when a user attempts to … Continue reading SharePoint 2013 – Office + Claims →

The distributed cache was a great idea introduced with SharePoint 2013.  It truly allows for a load balanced, highly available SharePoint farm where a user no longer needs to retain server affinity.  If I logged in on web front end 1 somehow get routed to web front end 2, no issues, lets just pull your … Continue reading My frustrations with the Distributed Cache →

I’ve recently been researching into what exactly is needed for implementing the App Model in SharePoint 2013.  Notably the environment into which we would be deploying SharePoint 2013 doesn’t support creating multiple IPs on a single box, so I had to get creative with the IIS bindings and instead use port separation. The issue with … Continue reading SharePoint 2013 App Domain dedicated Port binding vs dedicated IP binding →

How does a computer geek spend his Christmas vacation? a) Moving his WordPress blog to his own hosted domain which has been sitting idle for well over a year? b) Firing VirtualBox back up and getting multiple copies of Linux, Android, OS X, Windows Server 2012, and Chrome OS running on a single machine? c) … Continue reading What a geek does on vacation →

Ghosts can cause a massive headache when upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010, especially if you decide that the upgrade is a good time to re-organize your feature folder hierarchy. On a recent upgrade, we ran into multiple issues related to ghosted locations for both page layouts and content types. Page Layouts When upgrading … Continue reading Ghosts 2007->2010 Upgrade →