Travis Nielsen

I noticed that almost all of my most recent blog posts on the new claims features of SharePoint 2010 involve using ADFS 2.0 in some way. However, I don’t want to leave folks with the impression that this is a requirement. In fact, when SharePoint 2010 reaches RTM, you’ll be able to happily federate SharePoint […]

NOTE: THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR RELEASE CANDIDATE SOFTWARE. PLEASE REFER TO THE FOLLOWING POST FOR UPDATED CONTENT: https://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/nielsen_travis/Pages/Post.aspx?_ID=43 In my previous post, I demonstrated how to enable a SharePoint 2010 web application for claims authentication. As a result, it could be seen that all relevant windows account information (account SID, logon name, group […]

NOTE: THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR RELEASE CANDIDATE SOFTWARE. PLEASE REFER TO THE FOLLOWING POST FOR UPDATED CONTENT: https://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/nielsen_travis/Pages/Post.aspx?_ID=42 One of the most intriguing of the many new features that SharePoint 2010 brings to the table is a completely new mechanism handle user identity. This mechanism is based on the Windows Identity Foundation (formerly […]

For the past month or so I’ve been giving Windows Identity Foundation a very close look, especially where it relates to SharePoint 2010. I’ll be posting a series of blogs on this subject and I thought it might be useful to start off with a quick introduction on how to access the claims from which […]

OK. OK. We here at Perficient don’t always work with bleeding edge technology. And who can resist a chance to blog about FoxPro! I’ve recently been working on converting some DTS packages to SSIS and ran across a strange issue with the OLE DB provider for Visual FoxPro 9.0. Long story short, I created a […]

This probably won’t impact folks too much when the public beta of SP 2010 hits, but I thought I’d put this up in-case others out there in the community are having this issue. After a new build of my virtual machine with a pre-release version of SP2010, I saw the User Profile Application Service was […]

In my previous posting about the many enhancements to workflow created in SharePoint Designer 2010, I mentioned that approval processes can be applied to both documents and document sets. Seeing how the latter case is a new feature in SharePoint 2010, I thought it might be a good idea to at least explain the basic […]

In my last post, I discussed some nice workflow visualization features that will be part of the Office 2010 suite. In this post, I’ll review some of the improvements you can expect to see in upcoming releases of SharePoint Designer (SPD) 2010 and SharePoint 2010. There’s quite a lot to talk about here and this […]

One of the challenges I’ve always had with writing workflows is documenting them, especially workflows written in SharePoint designer. As consultants, we inevitably have to turn our work over to somebody to support it. So the handover typically occurs with screenshots from SPD or even a Visio diagram that depicts how the workflow is supposed […]

I’ve been developing some workflows recently in SharePoint Online and ran into an interesting issue I thought I’d write about. Basically, I encountered an error (“Error updating a list item”) every time I tried to assign a group to a standard task. The funny thing was that assigning to groups worked fine when using the […]

There’s a great scene in the movie Alien where Tom Skerritt’s character, Dallas, has a (somewhat eerie) conversation with the ship’s computer, named Mother. By conversation, I mean Dallas asks the computer questions and Mother responds with meaningful answers. Whenever I see it, I think of two things: I’m sure its not a mistake that, […]

As you might have guessed from my recent blogs, I have a bit of a security orientation with the work I do. Personally, I find the subject to be both interesting and important, especially given the rapid advancement of the kinds of collaboration technologies that PointBridge specializes in. And its not just the technical advancements, […]