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Hybrid Provider - Power Tools

Something that's been passed over in all of my Hybrid Provider work has been some of the cool little tweaks I've come up with to get some of the "supporting characters" to work. If custom SharePoint authentication plays the lead role, then login pages, Read More...
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 2:04 PM by cdomino | 0 Comments

Yeah? Well your padding is invalid and cannot be removed!

This little error seems to poke its ugly little head in several different areas around the .NET world. In my little corner of this world, SharePoint, and more specifically custom authentication with my Hybrid Provider , this error almost brought my portal Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 2:30 PM by cdomino | 0 Comments

The Hybrid Provider 2.0 - Released On CodePlex

I've finally completed the 2.0 Code Plex release of the Hybrid Provider . There are three major areas in which I have made improvements. Profiles Support for multiple web apps on the same farm Better and more WPF-er installer. Profiles I've added the Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 21, 2008 9:35 PM by cdomino | 4 Comments

The Hybrid Profiler - Aggregating AD and SQL User Profile Properties For SharePoint 2007

Introduction After two years, I think I have all the kinks worked out of the Hybrid Provider , not to mention a new WPF installer that has pretty gradients and spinning animations (still no dancing monkey buttons...sorry) that eliminates the two hours Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 21, 2008 9:34 PM by cdomino | 1 Comments

The SPWebConfigModification Class: No, It Doesn't Suck

When I was working on my Hybrid Provider Installer , I came across a few things to discuss regarding the SPWebConfigModification class. One is a very minor SharePoint bug, and others are some nuances I ran into. Now, of course, my code never has any bugs Read More...
Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 2:57 PM by cdomino | 0 Comments

The Hybrid Provider Installer

It's finally up on CodePlex! Get it here . The installer is pretty straight forward. I wanted to do an MSI, but there would be so much customization of the UI and so many custom actions that it would actually be easier to just write it from scratch. So Read More...
Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 1:57 PM by cdomino | 0 Comments

Creating MembershipUsers With The HybridProvider

Another quickie: When creating new users with The Hybrid Provider, (or really any custom Membership Provider) you'll need to pass a valid "ProviderUserKey." This is essentially the "primary key" of the user (in database terms, if you will). So I was passing Read More...
Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 2:58 PM by cdomino | 0 Comments

The HybridProvider: Retrieving Passwords

I originally wrote the HybridProvider using all of the default settings for its underlying SQL and AD providers.  The basic paradigm I tackled was that "internal" users would be authenticating against AD; their accounts are essentially Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:41 PM by cdomino | 1 Comments

The HybridProvider: Search

An issue came up today with my HybridProvider that I felt I should address.  Actually, the issue wasn't something not working; instead, it was a case where I had forgotten how I did it!  And we all know this happens in programming, and especially Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:40 PM by cdomino | 1 Comments

Office 2007 Integration With The SharePoint 2007 Hybrid Provider

One of the first things that didn’t work with my Hybrid Provider was opening Office documents from SharePoint. Since SharePoint loads the doc from the server, the user is re-authenticated before the client application will open it. In fact, when setting Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 9:31 PM by cdomino | 0 Comments

The HybridProvider - An Investigation Into Slow AD Authentication

So everything’s been hunky-dory with my HybridProvider…but I’ll get back to that… For whatever reason, our production SharePoint environment is hosted on a VM, not a physical machine (although new servers have been ordered). We have scheduled VM backups, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:01 PM by cdomino | 0 Comments

The Hybrid Provider: Source Code And Configuration Files

Well, it’s after 3:00 AM and apparently my laptop is as exhausted as I am and refuses to upload the attachment for my Hybrid Provider blog entry. So here is the content for the HybridProvider.cs and web.config files you’ll need to make sense of the Hybrid Read More...
Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 5:14 AM by cdomino | 0 Comments

The Hybrid Provider: Authenticating both AD and SQL Users in SharePoint 2007

Introduction One of the greatest leaps that SharePoint 2003 has made to its 2007 release is the fact it is now built entirely on top on ASP.NET 2.0. SharePoint can now even be thought of as an actual web application, just like any other. While 2003 hacked Read More...
Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 4:32 AM by cdomino | 14 Comments