Recently, a collegue and I were helping a client enable Forms Based Authentication.  He sent out an email on how you lose client integration functionality when you have Forms Based Authentication enabled. SharePoint Buzz Twitter Community is GreatI tweeted earlier today that I was working on a draft version of this post and the SharePoint Twitte ...[Read More]

Preparing your Visual Studio 2008 Workflow ProjectThis is the 3rd part of our Beginners Guide to SharePoint 2007 Workflow Development.   You understand the workflow development scenario and how to create an InfoPath web-based form.  Now in this part of the series, we will be Preparing your Visual Studio 2008 Workflow Project for workflow develop ...[Read More]

Both Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Nintex Workflow 2007 are powerful tools that can be used to create, design, and publish custom workflows to your Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Farm.  They are both generally geared toward the SharePoint Power User.  Although a beginner should be able to pick it up fairly easy.  They both use a ...[Read More]

Introduction to InfoPath FormsInfoPath 2007 is included as part of Office 2007 (trail / test drive) and forms generated by InfoPath 2007 are great for gathering information from end users. With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition, you can also use the InfoPath Forms Services capabilities to deliver forms as Microsoft Offic ...[Read More]

I will be walking you, a beginning developer, through a custom SharePoint 2007 workflow solution.  A few pieces of information before we get into the solution.  This scenario has been developed to assist developers (beginners) who are starting out in custom workflow development and to feel comfortable developing workflow solutions.  These techniqu ...[Read More]

There's quite a bit of planning that you can do to configure and enable anonymous access In SharePoint 2007.  When you enable anonymous access, users will be able to access your view form pages (http://server/forms/allitems.aspx) without logging in.   For quite a few public sites, that's not what you always want.  Depending on your requirements, t ...[Read More]

Some of the best posts on the net regarding Sharepoint 2007 and Authentication.  This is a post that has been around for one year and I'm sure there are newer more complete guides.  What would you recommend? NTLM Authentication with SharePoint Most SharePoint environments today are using NTLM (the default) as the authentication protocol. This has ...[Read More]

This Management Pack quickly brings any failures or configuration problems to your attention, which increases the availability and performance of Office SharePoint Server 2007. This Management Pack also provides the knowledge and expertise you need to leverage Operations Manager 2007 and get an immediate return on your investment. This Managemen ...[Read More]

Willie Rust has a great two part series on using a SharePoint list as an Authentication provider.  If you have a public facing site than consider this as an amazing alternative to using NTLM.  Even if you dont have one, this is great experience for those who want to learn more SharePoint 2007 authentication methods. This walkthrough is great ho ...[Read More]

One of the most commonly asked questions I get is 'how do I get anonymous access to work'. Usually, a person has enabled anonymous access in Central Administration, but not in the site collection. Here, I will try to reduce the process to the bare minimum required to enable anonymous access for a single document library.   From Central Admini ...[Read More]