Claims-based identity is a common way for applications to acquire the identity information they need about users inside their organization, in other organizations, and on the Internet. It also provides a consistent approach for applications running on-premises or in the cloud.
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What are the claims supported by SharePoint?
I am passing Claims from a custom STS to SharePoint. It seems that some of the Claims are coming through OK to SharePoint, but not all. For example I am passing in the GivenName and Surname claims, ...
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Override _layouts/Authenticate.aspx for claims based authentication (LiveID)
I've configured claims-based authentication using Windows Live ID.
In Microsoft service manager the default return URL is as in WS-Federation specification:
https://domain.com/_trust/default.aspx
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Why is GetUserProfileByName from InfoPath Forms Services with claims authentication failing?
I have a web application with an ADFS 2.0 trusted identity provider, and it's the only authentication provider. When I login, SharePoint correctly associates me with the my stored profile, but calls ...
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Claims and ADFS - EnsureUser throws SPException on user who exists
I have setup a web app in SP2010 with ADFS and NTLM authentication enabled. We have code that runs SPUser.EnsureUser() that fails looking up a user account that exists in the hidden user list ...
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Phone-Gap Claims Authentication against SharePoint in Office365 fails, probably because of HTTPOnly flag in cookie
I am coding an application using Phone Gap to connect to a Sharepoint in Office365.
I need to use the REST services in Sharepoint Office 365 to add items to a list, but before that I need to ...
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Why is user name resolution displaying mydomain\user when using claims based authentication?
We have claims based authentication enabled on our SharePoint 2010 environment. None of the account display names are correct for users.
I tried the solution listed here: Inconsistent user names in ...
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How to configure AD to enable SharePoint users to authenticate with username@custom.com rather than domain\username?
How can I configure Active Directory to enable SharePoint users to authenticate with username@custom.com rather than domain\username?
I have done this before and by adding an item to the select box ...
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How to detect if my code is running inside SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges
Is there a way to detect if my code is running inside SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges?
class Foo
{
public static void Bar()
{
if (CODE_RUNS_ELEVATED)
{
Debug.WriteLine("You ...
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Always getting access denied for all loginaccounts
I'm in a middle of a process of setting sp_accounts to sp services and for some wrong behaviour I'm always getting access denied when enter the webapp for all accounts.
Claims service could be the ...
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Strategy for correct external authentication?
I'm a bit confused about the different terminology, components and steps to make my scenario work.
I'm working on a SP 2010 platform that can have multiple authentication mechanisms : Anonymous, ...
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Sharepoint 2010 ADFS 2.0 people picker
I've got a Sharepoint 2010 Server and on the same virtual machine ADFS 2.0. (It's a testing environment)
The Problem is, that sharepoint people picker doesnt show the claims when searching. These ...
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Users have several ids in the same Web
I have backup-restored a site collection. In the new site collection we use Claims based authentcation.
Now it looks like all the users from the old web is also restored on the new site (which ...
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All Authenticated Users claim
I'm adding items to my list by powershell script. I need to fine-grain user permissions to added items.
Code I'm using now:
$claim = New-SPClaimsPrincipal -ClaimValue $role -ClaimType $ROLE_CLAIM ...
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Claims Auth, ADFS & Subject Alternate names
I currently have a wildcard cert *name.com with several subject alternate names. Inside the subject alternate names, there is an entry for name.net and several other variations.
The URL of my ...
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Sharepoint 2010 SSO with Forefront TMG
We have a SharePoint 2010 site which we would like to SSO users into from an existing ASP.NET (Forms auth) website on which they are already authenticated. However the users need to be logged into ...
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Programmatically create MySites for Users with FBA
I am trying to create MySites for users programmatically but I am receiving the following error:
My Site creation failure for user '' for site URL 'http://goaccel-app2:1000/sites/mysites/personal/'.
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Office 365 SharePoint Authentication from Objective-C on IOS
I want to create an IOS app that connects to my Office365 SharePoint team site using the list rest services. How do I do authentication? Any examples?
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How can we use facebook login to authenticate to SharePoint
I know SharePoint 2010 has claims based authentication. First off, is it possible to use facebook as the authentication mechanism in SharePoint 2010?
If it is possible what are the steps needed from ...
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Claims-based Windows login acting different on pre-IE10 and IE10
I have a custom claims-based login page which works correctly in Firefox, Chrome, and IE 10. The login page is a standard "choose your login type" scenario that redirects to _windows for Windows ...
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How to Consume OData or Web Services from Office 365 on Windows Phone?
I am struggling to consume a web service of Office 365 like _vti_bin/lists.asmx.
I found good documentation and an example of how to work with SharePoint and Forms Based Authentication in the ...
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Sharepoint 2007 to 2010 conversion and authentication
I'm consulting on a project that needs help passing authenticated user to other .Net applications on the same domain from Sharepoint to standard .Net & classic asp sites. Currently in SP 2007, ...
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Call SharePoint WCF web service protected by claims based authentication
I'm using SharePoint 2010 as a document store for a front-end .NET application. The SharePoint farm is using Claims Based Authentication. I want to call a WCF web service on the farm with a ...
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improve People Picker search on a claims-based-authentification server (forms-based; FBA)
Long story short: On a SharePoint 2010 Server solution, which is using forms-based-authentification only, I want that the people picker search dialog works like any other usable search.
Rightnow it ...
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FBA With SQL Membership Provider
I am working on, what it seems for the most part, a standard implementation of SharePoint 2010 to support internal and external authentication. Internal will be using traditional NTML Windows ...
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Sign off of Windows with out of box LDAP provider on 2013 causes encodedValue error
I've hit upon yet another encodedValue error scenario:
Exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' was thrown. Parameter name: encodedValue at
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People Picker attempts to use claim based authentication but the web application authentication provider is classic / windows
We recently in-place upgraded our sharepoint 2007 to sharepoint 2010.
We were using Windows authentication in the 2007 environment and wish to continue doing so in the 2010 environment.
The ...
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Windows Live Authentication with Sharepoint Question
I have configured as CBA with Windows Live as instructed here: http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/Post.aspx?id=562. I think I am very close. When I visit my site I am redirected to select authentication ...
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Is SPContext.Current Supposed to Be null in Custom WCF Service?
Here is the scenario:
Custom WCF Service deployed in SharePoint 2010
Site is using Claims Based authentication (FBA, NTLM)
.svc is deployed to ISAPI in the hive
Service is configured using custom ...
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Search not working on web app with claim based authentication
I have SharePoint 2010 Foundation installed on win server 2008 r2 and I have created a web application with classic authentication and another web application with claim based authentication. ...
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How can I customise the image displayed in the claim picker?
I have got several custom claim providers which provide search and resolve functionality to the orgin sources of various incoming claims to our SharePoint 2010 farm.
I was wondering if anyone knew ...
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SharePoint 2013 using Claims-based Authentication
As I understand it, SP 2013 will run on .NET Framework 4.5. Claims-based authentication runs on WIF. In .NET Framework 4.5, WIF (2.0) has been substantially updated (changes).
How will this update ...
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RSS Viewer web part with claims based authentication through a proxy
When using the RSS viewer web part under classic authentication to get the web part to work through a proxy you would add the following to the web.config file.
<system.net>
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FBA SharePoint 2010 and login in Word
I have tried to get into Claim based authentication using FBA as with AspNetSqlRoleProvider and AspNetSqlMembershipProvider, I got it up and running. But there is one issue I can't get my head around. ...
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Sharepoint 2010 windows authentication via login form (2 textboxes for username and password)
are there anyways to use a login form with a textbox for username and another one for password to authenticate a user with windows authentication ?
like the image below, i want to use a login form ...
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How can I map a user authenticated via Claims Authentication to Active directory account?
I have a user that is logged into SharePoint via Claims Authentication and a custom STS. This provides the following claims:
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/authentication
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Can I convert Claims Authentication to Classic Mode?
Is there a way to convert Claims Authentication to Classic?
Also, if I want to start with Windows Authentication and then have the possibility to change to forms Authentication in the future, which ...
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Sharepoint anonymous user search results
We have two zones - Default is Claims based and Custom is NTLM - this one is used for crawling.
My issue is that when I search under anonymous user - the protected content is returned, even though ...
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Allow multiple authentication methods in claims based web application
Web applications using CMA (Classic Mode Authentication) need to be setup with different Zones if it is to accommodate different types of CMA methods. This is called 'extending a web application'. In ...
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Are there any way to change the Membership Provider & Role Manager through code or Powershell
I know that you can specify the Membership provider and Role manager for a web application on creation, but I need to update it after creation. any clue.
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User Profile Synch for Claims Based accounts
The situation:
I have a SharePoint 2010 Claims Based Web Application with 2 authentication methods enabled: Windows Authentication and a Trusted Identity Provider.
I have enabled User Profiles and ...
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Unauthorized access to User Profile Service web service
I have two zones for my SP2010 site collection: default (uses Win Auth- claims) and internet (uses FBA to an AD user store). I have a WP which would call the User Profile Web Service and get some ...
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ADFS, people picker and custom claims provider
I read article of Steve Peshka here which points that we have to develop custom claims provider in order to override pepole searching using people picker in SP2010.
I have two questions regarding ...
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Create a sharepoint registration page for external users
I want to make a sharepoint site where everyone has access to the login page. On the login page, there should be a link to a registration page where new users can register. The emailadress provided ...
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Where is a good description of User Login values in SharePoint 2010 with and without claims?
If I look at HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name I get values that map to what I see in the content database in UserInfo.tp_Login.
Since I have enabled both Windows Authentication and Forms Based ...
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SPSite.RootWeb.AllProperties is null Claims Authentication
I just created a new WebApplication & Site Collection in sharepoint.
Note : WebApplication uses Claims Authentication mode, Custom Trusted Identity Provider for my application.
In powershell ...
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Windows Auth and Forms with LDAP provider - merge identity?
I have a need to handle two unique authentication scenarios:
"Off network" - provide a login form (Forms based auth)
"In Network" - traditional windows auth / no form
This is the same user base - ...
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Creating a custom authentication provider for SharePoint 2010
I am trying to implement the "best" solution for a custom authentication mechanism in a SharePoint 2010 Extranet site.
Here is how I would define "best":
Does not require purchasing additional ...
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Claims Based Authenticaion in 2010: Change UserAttributes
I have a custom claims provider which adds some claims from an external system (eg. Email, Fullname, etc.).
This works fine, but i want to display the value from the fullname-claim on the top-right ...
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Unable to create site collection programmatically
This problem is somewhat related to this Creating a Site collection programmatically throws exception 0x80070005 question.
I cannot create site collections programmatically in Claims-based ...
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Access Denied - While migrating classic to claims
I was following the below links to migrate my classic site to claims based.
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