Share-n-dipity
SharePoint serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. In this case, it is the occassional musings, observations, and Ouija board readings about the phabulously
Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 7
// PREVIOUS: Security in SharePoint Apps – Part 6 In this part of the series, I’m going...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 08/01/2013
Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 6
// PREVIOUS: Security in SharePoint Apps – Part 5 As promised, in this part of the series...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 07/31/2013
Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 5
// PREVIOUS: Security in SharePoint Apps – Part 4 As promised in Part 4, there’s...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 07/30/2013
Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 4
// PREVIOUS: Security in SharePoint Apps – Part 3 In Part 3 I talked about how SharePoint...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 07/30/2013
Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 3
// PREVIOUS: Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 2 In the first two parts of this series we looked at...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 07/29/2013
Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 2
// PREVIOUS: Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 1 In Part 1 of this series I described how to think...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 07/29/2013
Security in SharePoint Apps - Part 1
// I recently put together a session around security in SharePoint Apps. There seems to be enough...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 07/29/2013
Another Hybrid BCS Configuration Tip When Importing A BDC Model File
// The hybrid tips are a little hard to come by, so when I find one I try and share. This tip is for...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 07/18/2013
How To Use CSOM with Ratings in SharePoint 2013
// I wrote a related post today about how to find the fields names in a list:...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 07/08/2013
How To Quickly and Easily Get a List of Fields in a SharePoint 2013 List.
// This is going to be the first of two short postings, because while they are related, they are...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 07/08/2013
Another 401 Unauthorized Tip for Working with SharePoint Apps
// I've tried to update the related postings to this, but sometimes you need a call out to make...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 07/03/2013
SharePoint Conference is Back!
Hey all, just spreading the word, in case you have not heard - after taking a one-year hiatus, the...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 06/13/2013
Converting a VS.NET Web for a Provider Hosted SharePoint App to a Full Blown Web or Console Application
// This post is yet another in my series of "how long of a post title I can come up with and...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 06/12/2013
Missing Context Token in Low Trust App with SharePoint 2013
// Should you decide that you want to write low trust apps for an on-premises SharePoint 2013 farm,...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 05/28/2013
Checklist for Issues with Custom Claims Providers in SharePoint 2010 and 2013
// As I was going round and round a few weeks ago trying to figure out why my custom claims provider...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 05/15/2013
Integrating SharePoint 2013 with Azure Active Directory – Part 2 The Custom Claims Provider
// In Part 1 of this series, we went through how to configure SharePoint to use ACS and Azure Active...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 05/12/2013
Integrating SharePoint 2013 with Azure Active Directory – Part 1 Configuration
// NOTE: I updated this 10/9/2013 because some of the Url references I had below had changed between...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 05/10/2013
Using Multiple Properties Or The Entire Object In a Converter Class for Windows Phone and WinRT
// Kind of a long wordy title, what does it really mean? When you are creating a custom converter...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 04/12/2013
Using REST Services with a Provider Hosted App in SharePoint 2013
// Today's topic seems straightforward enough, right? There's lots of documentation all over...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 04/11/2013
Creating Refinable and Sortable Managed Properties in Sites and Site Collections in SharePoint 2013
// Someone was asking today about how to create a managed property at the site or site collection...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 04/04/2013
Troubleshooting Tips for Hybrid BCS Connections Between Office 365 and SharePoint 2013 On Premises
// Let me preface this posting by saying a couple of things: This is not going to be a "how do...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 04/01/2013
Resolving a Problem Creating a New Encryption Key for Secure Store Service in SharePoint 2013
// I ran across this problem today, which was caused by something that's easy to forget so I...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 03/11/2013
Using Taxonomy AKA Managed Metadata AKA TermSets with CSOM in SharePoint 2013
// I had the occasion to need to figure out accessing the Managed Metadata Store using the new...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 02/27/2013
When Do Your Apps Need AppRegNew.aspx in SharePoint 2013
// I had a nice question today from my good friend Bala, who was working on some app stuff and...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 02/18/2013
Resolving the Directory Links Across Partitions are not Allowed Error When Crawling OData BDC Sources
// I've been seeing this error more and more recently, both inside and outside the walls of my...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 02/04/2013
What You Need to Know About Using EnsureUser In Claims-Based Web Apps in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013
// We ran across an interesting wrinkle in some code last week where someone was using the...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 02/03/2013
Another Port Opening for Search in SharePoint 2013
// My friend JP is hard at work finding all the port openings we need that haven't gotten...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 02/01/2013
Using ACS with the New Azure Web Sites
// This is effectively just a "retweet" but I wanted to call this out because it was very...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 01/29/2013
Getting a Full Result Set from a Remote SharePoint Index in SharePoint 2013
// This post is in follow up to a previous post about setting up an OAuth trust between two farms:...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 01/24/2013
Configuring Multiple Distributed Cache Servers in SharePoint 2013
// My good friend JP Poissant found a little configuration glitch the other day when building out a...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 01/11/2013
Enabling Licensing and Editing for Office Web Apps in SharePoint 2013
// I had the unfortunate need to understand the licensing model a little bit better recently for...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 12/31/2012
Create An Easy PDF Preview for Search Results in SharePoint 2013
// I saw this question flying around the other day and thought it was kind of interesting. Someone...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 12/20/2012
Using SharePoint Apps with SAML and FBA Sites in SharePoint 2013
// Hopefully by now everyone has heard about the new app model in SharePoint 2013. There’s a...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 12/07/2012
Using OData and ECTs in SharePoint 2013
// One of the nice enhancements in SharePoint 2013 BCS world is that SharePoint can now consume...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 12/06/2012
Using Fiddler With SAML and SharePoint to Get Past the Three Authentication Prompts
// Eric Lawrence touches on this topic in one of his Fiddler blog posts, but unless you know what...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 12/02/2012
Using User Context (AKA Segmentation) in Search with SharePoint 2013
// Using a context to represent the current user in search was something that we first introduced in...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 12/02/2012
Adding a New Search Partition and Replica in SharePoint 2013
// I think there are probably resources out there somewhere for this by now, but I had a hard time...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 12/02/2012
Windows Phone 8 Support for SharePoint and SAML
// This is a fortunately small update to the post about Windows Phone 7.x and SAML SharePoint sites...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 11/30/2012
Query Rule Conditions in SharePoint 2013 Search
// I was putting this information together today for the SharePoint 2013 recordings that will be...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 11/20/2012
Hybrid Features In SharePoint 2013 and Office 365
// For those of you that haven't heard yet, we have some great new features in SharePoint 2013...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 11/13/2012
More TroubleShooting Tips for High Trust Apps on SharePoint 2013
// Hey, I'm an app guy, I like doing dev, but honestly - I may go hoarse screaming at my...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 11/01/2012
How to Configure the Global Search Center Url for SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell
// I had this question come up today and it was a little bit of work to track down so I thought I...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 10/29/2012
Where Did My OWA ULS Logs Go In SharePoint 2013
// One of the neat features about SharePoint 2013 is that Office Web Apps has been split off into...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 10/12/2012
Another Apps for SharePoint Tip with the Error "The issuer of the token is not a trusted issuer"
// I was working on a build of SharePoint that is post beta 2 today, and found that one of my custom...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 09/27/2012
Creating and Using a Certificate for the CSUpload Tool with Azure IaaS Services
// In my posting on using SharePoint up in Azure IaaS services...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 09/15/2012
Working with Request Manager in SharePoint 2013
// I haven't seen a lot of information out and about on this yet, so I thought I'd take a...
Author: Steve Peschka Date: 09/14/2012