SharePoint 2010’s Secure Store Service provides a way to map credentials and delegate access to remote resources. You may already be familiar with the MOSS 2007 Single Sign-on Shared Service, which was the former equivalent. The Secure Store Service integrates seemlessly with Business Connectivity Services (BCS), but it also features an API that can be… Read More »
When managing users and groups within a SharePoint Web application configured to use Windows Integrated Authentication, there is a convenient “Add all authenticated users” link that adds a special Active Directory group - NT AUTHORITY\authenticated users - to the Users/Groups People Editor. This group refers to any non-anonymous user, which if you ask me, seems… Read More »
Seeing this? The security validation for this page is invalid. I am sure this error has good intentions, but it is showing its face far too often. Hristo Pavlov has written a good explanation on AllowUnsafeUpdates here. If you read my previous post and are attempting to update list items as the System User, you… Read More »
Scenario You are writing a custom web part or control and want to be able to access a list or resource within your code that the current user otherwise does not have permissions to. For me, this happens quite frequently. For example: Reading info from a list dedicated to storing Application Settings that only an… Read More »