Reset the farm Passphrase in SharePoint 2010 if you forget it

It is easy simple do the following and it will work:

1. Open the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (Start > All Programs > Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products > SharePoint 2010 Management Shell)
2. Write this at the PowerShell prompt:
1. $passphrase = ConvertTo-SecureString -asPlainText -Force
2. Input the new desired passphrase and press Enter
3. Write this at the PowerShell prompt:
1. Set-SPPassPhrase -PassPhrase $passphrase -Confirm
4. You will be asked to confirm the passphrase by re-entering it
5. Re-enter the passphrase and press Enter
6. You will be asked if you are sure that you want to perform this action, type Y (for Yes) and hit Enter
7. Your farm passphrase has now been rested :)

SharePoint 2010 Calendar hovers and add new button

When you hover over a day in the SharePoint calendar the “add new” link comes up. This isn’t working “exactly” right. The reason is, if you scroll down on the page and then hover over a calendar item, the “add new” link shows up in the wrong calendar day. It works perfectly fine if you don’t have to scroll down (the issue only happens when you scroll).

from

http://www.greggalipeau.com/2011/01/28/a-better-enhanced-sharepoint-2010-floating-ribbon/

http://underthehood.ironworks.com/2011/12/dealing-with-sharepoint-2010-calendars-add-button-issues-after-fixing-the-scrolling-bug.html

setting up windows authentication/active directory with multi tenancy

Having different OUs per tenant for example let’s say I have an OU called Customers, and within that I have an OU for each of my tenants (Microsoft, Oracle and Apple). Each individual customer OU contains a tenant admin user and then some regular users; thus it is isolated and secured. Here is some references.

http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010mt4.aspx

http://ajay555.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/sharepoint-2010-for-hosting-service-providers-multi-tenant-configuration-and-management-made-easy/

http://blog.helloitsliam.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=e10cb685-6b5c-4b6c-aaf4-e1d122d57174&ID=10&Web=8fe3252e-9495-44f1-b2e4-dbd7b201440b

http://projectserverblogs.com/?p=4418

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SharePoint 2010 claims based and mixed authentication

The problem:

Some line of business portals has an issue with multiple authentication techniques because part of the authentication is done through LDAP or any other type of authentication techniques and the other part is done against AD.

The solution:

SharePoint 2010 security is the answer for this because SharePoint 2010 changes authentication in the following areas:

– Uses classic mode and claims based authentication

– Classic mode is SharePoint 2007 style legacy mode

– Claims-based authentication is the new security model

What are the benefits?

– Claims decouples SharePoint from the authentication provider

– Allows SharePoint to support multiple authentication providers per URL

– Identities can be passed without Kerberos delegation

– Allows federation between organizations

– ACLs can be configured with DLs, Audiences and OUs

Claims-Based Terminology

• Identity: security principal used to configure the security policy

• Claim (Assertion): attribute of an identity (such as Login Name, AD Group, etc.)

• Issuer: trusted party that creates claims

• Security Token: serialized set of claims (assertions) about an authenticated user.

• Issuing Authority: issues security tokens knowing claims desired by target application (AD, ASP.NET, LiveID, etc.)

• Security Token Service (STS): builds, signs and issues security tokens

• Relying Party: application that makes authorization decisions based on claims

Multi Authentication: When to Use It:

• Same experience for different class of users

• Single URL instead of doing 2 urls like we used to do in MOSS 2007

• Same experience for same users no matter where they access content from

• Outlook Web Access

• Preferred choice for cross company collaboration solutions

Most of the article taken from presentation by: Brian Culver, MCM, MCPD Solutions Architect Expert Point Solutions.

And here some other useful links:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sridhara/archive/2010/01/07/setting-up-fba-claims-in-sharepoint-2010-with-active-directory-membership-provider.aspx

http://sharepointchick.com/archive/2010/05/06/configuring-claims-and-forms-based-authentication-for-use-with-an.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/steve_chen/archive/2010/09/29/configure-forms-based-authentication-fba-with-sharepoint-2010.aspx

http://spautomaticsignin.codeplex.com/

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brporter/archive/2010/05/10/temp.aspx

http://www.orbitone.com/en/blog/archive/2010/05/04/sharepoint-2010-mixed-authentication.aspx