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I'm Speaking At LCNUG This Thursday! (11.20.8)

If anyone lives in the Chicagoland area and really really really wants to haul it up to Grays Lake, IL, I'm going to be giving my first-ever keynote at the Lake County .NET Users Group! My talk is going to be about the Hybrid Provider , and how it facilitates Read More...
Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 5:17 PM by cdomino | 0 Comments

SharePoint Online - Thoughts On PDC 2008 Talk

Okay so yesterday I got really excited about Microsoft Azure , especially when SharePoint was one of five highlighted technologies that would be natively hosted in the cloud.  These technologies are the "services" that make up, well, the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:09 PM by cdomino | 0 Comments

SharePoint 2007 Workflow - Issue With Content Type For Custom Edit Forms

I just ran into a little gotcha with SharePoint workflows.  If you are using custom edit forms, you're going to have to create a new content type for them.  This requires only adding a new XML file to your WF project that has a no more than Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 06, 2008 3:38 PM by cdomino | 0 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

Accessing AD Data From SharePoint

I’ve been hitting the forums up lately to see if I can make the world a better place one SharePoint issue at time. Well, apparently, this SharePoint world is in really bad proverbial shape, and one of the largest oppressors is Active Directory. “How do Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 01, 2007 4:22 PM by cdomino | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): SharePointAD.zip

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

A Tale of Two Servers: Migrating SharePoint From a Hosted 2003 Environment to a Local 2007 Server

When it comes to SharePoint 2007 migrations, Microsoft has plenty of different ways to approach them…well…actually only two different ways. And of course, when I sat down to perform our migration, the feasibility of each of these paths quickly evaporated. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:29 PM by cdomino | 1 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

Converting Between String And Byte Array Representations Of SIDs

I’ve been at a client for quite some time doing SharePoint work, and came across an interesting issue. They have about 1,000 “corporate” users and 5,000 “field” users, with account names that follow a first-initial-last-name naming convention. And despite Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 6:24 PM by cdomino | 0 Comments

A Brief Insight Into SharePoint Lists

SharePoint lists can be a convenient mechanism to store data in a database table-ish manner without having to leave your comfy SharePoint home. However, before you get too comfy living in a SharePoint list data storage paradigm, there are just a few things Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 9:07 PM by cdomino | 2 Comments
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