Monthly Archives: February 2011

RSS Reader, Claims Authentication and Kerberos

In a demo I was helping to set up last week, I had to configure an RSS Reader web part to read an RSS Feed from MySite (The Activity Feed, to be precise). Back in SharePoint 2007, you could not … Continue reading

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Wildcard SSL Certificates, Friendly names and IIS 7.5

Just finished provisioning a new SSL certificate for Oakton’s Dev environment and was having a bit of trouble getting it set up properly. Essentially you can buy an SSL Cert for as many servers as you want, for as many sub-domains … Continue reading

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SharePoint 2010 My Site Activity Feed, RSS-style

The Activity feed in the My Site for SharePoint 2010 is Great – you can see at a glance what everyone’s up to and what the topics of interest are. However, it’s not that clear how you might consume it … Continue reading

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List Web Part Configuration – There are no items to show in this view of the list. To add a new item, click "New".

What an imaginative message. While it’s technically true, it certainly does not drive the user to perform some sort of remedial action… At my current gig, I’m setting up pages which are used to show people visually what a specific … Continue reading

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Feedback from any page, using 2010’s page dialogs

SharePoint 2010 is nice. It has lots of nice features, including a nifty one that pops up a Dialog on screen when you want to create a new list item, then auto-refreshes the page that the item was triggered from … Continue reading

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