Monday, March 17, 2008

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions Visual Studio 2005 Project Templates
Web Part
Team Site Definition
Blank Site Definition
List Definition

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Windows Live Authentication in MOSS 2007 - Configuration and Integration Live Authentication in SharePoint 2007

Windows Live Authentication in MOSS 2007 - Configuration and Integration Live Authentication in SharePoint 2007

Windows Live Authentication 1.0 which is available in CodePlex. Download and install the .wsp file to SharePoint server 2007. Download Link
While installing these are the three main initial steps to follow.
Step1:

Step2:

Step3:

These three steps as to success, then only the installation completes.
Next is live ID registration in https://msm.live.com/app/default.aspx

Now the registration page appears.

After click submit, you will redirect to a page displaying the important information to be noted.
Now click on the manage the application to do the maintain the application.
Next the important configuration using the command window.


Finally you need to add the defaultProvider for the Web Application that will authenticate Live ID users, you will replace the following in the web.config for the Web Application: with You can find an example portion of the complete web.config herePerform an IISRESET and you are done

Finally the configuration file changes for your web application

Now when you try to login to your site using Windows Live ID, you may face this error "Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object. "
To solve this first try this operation
stsadm -o upgrade -inplace
If not solved, try out this option Try installing the Service Pack for SharePoint Click Here
When i logged in using my Windows Live ID it says that
Error: Access Denied
Current User
You are currently signed in as: ac592e0e0b189909163bccfeff41cace
This means the feature WindowsLiveAuthenticationSettings is not actived in your site, we need to active this feature. Lets see how.

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\WindowsLiveAuthenticationSettings
After activating the feature using stsadm.exe (for more ref:)
After activated

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Monday, March 03, 2008

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

This solution accelerator is a collection of software and guidance that you can use to easily deploy a SharePoint-based environment for collaboration with people outside your firewall. The accelerator allows users to create collaboration environments that use the familiar SharePoint interface.

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'joelo' as blogged External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint in detail in his blog site

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