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Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article   I had received a somewhat odd request to produce a proof-of-concept application to enable a classic asmx Web Services to accept any namespace in the soap 1.1 request and to return the same namespace to the caller. To understand…

Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article I have been writing some blogs entries (and even a Microsoft KB) about c2WTS, but the subject never exhausts. I was helping two different customers to troubleshoot issues with SharePoint Excel Services. In one of the cases the problem happened…

Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article As I have promised in my previous post, I am making available a C++ console application to troubleshoot named pipes endpoints in WCF. Below is a screenshot of the application:   Application logic: It gets the endpoint from the command…

Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article If Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) implementation has its own idiosyncrasies, named pipes provider is the champion. First, let’s start with the name of the provider. Named Pipes in Windows can be used to communicate between process on the same machine…

Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article After adding page links to the Top Link Bar of team sites tab, the Home tab (the first one) was not getting highlighted anymore when selected. All other page links added to the Top Link Bar were being highlighted as…

Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article There is no better way of learning something than to observe someone doing it step-by-step. I gathered information from different sources during the beta phase of SharePoint. So my thanks go to Darin Roulston, Eric Adams, Tracy Paddock, Jon Waite…

Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article I know a large number of people who believe that Claims to Windows Token Service is a SharePoint feature. They are mistaken, c2WTS is part of Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) which is one of the pre-requisites for SharePoint. SharePoint indeed…

Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article Don’t you hate when you have access denied and you don’t know where it is coming from? It is even worse when it is related to anonymous access where a single detail can prevent a page from being rendered (IIS…

Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article If you have ever tried to programmatically create a Web Application using Kerberos as authentication provider you noticed that the Authentication Provider resets to NTLM. The cmdlet to create a new Web Application is New-SPWebApplication (or New-SPWebApplicationExtension to extending an…

Feedback Feedback Summarize this article for me Summarize this article for me In this article   My friend Yuri Diogenes, one of the security gurus here at Microsoft, in partnership with Jim Harrison, Mohit Saxena and having Tom Shinder as Technical Reviewer released last February the Microsoft Press Administrator’s Companion for Forefront TMG 2010, the…