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For externally facing SharePoint deployments, security is an acutely important deployment concern. Learn how through daily security scanning, you can ensure external business users and partners that they can collaborate in confidence!

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ARB Security Solutions regularly releases free SharePoint software, including WebParts, Client Applications, Framework Extensions, and other Miscellaneous Components.
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Title: Simple SharePoint Rollup WebPart
Date Published: 10/22/2009

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By SharePoint security integrators, for SharePoint security integrators.
Recent SharePoint 2010 Articles
Developer Turnover and Maintaining Valid TFS Historical Data - TFS Error TF20015

Developer Turnover and Maintaining Valid TFS Historical Data - TFS Error TF20015

When maintaining a TFS environment where WI's become crucial in terms of development artifacts, you may notice an issue with removed AD accounts causing a problem where WI’s are not privy to updates because the account has been removed from Active Directory. This becomes a huge issue because updates to ...

ForeFront for SharePoint High Memory Utilization

ForeFront for SharePoint High Memory Utilization

At a client of mine today, who has a robust FSSP environment, similar to the larger one I wrote about in this MSDN article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee412237.aspx or if you are just interested in the specific image: http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/Ee412237.792e5c8b-f1b7-4cb4-9b87-5689c44973da(en-us,office.12).gif was experiencing an abnormal amount of memory utilization on the WFE’s I had built for them. While they ...

Exploding TFS Groups For User Investigation

Exploding TFS Groups For User Investigation

When users are using Team Explorer and viewing the group membership for a particular project (Team Project Settings -> Group Membership) it’s pretty easy because explicit users and groups are listed. However, this becomes a problem when you want to view all the users of that particular group. This is ...

TFS Proxy Server Unexpected Shutdowns

TFS Proxy Server Unexpected Shutdowns

TFS Proxy Servers are essential for my current client’s TFSenvironment because they allow the disparate SharePoint development environment to experience improved network performance by caching copies of VC files. Since this particular environment is geo-distributed, this is a necessary architectural requirement in order to maintain appropriate developer efficiency. Recently, a ...

Mirroring TFS - Consider Index Rebuilds When Using TLog Backups

Mirroring TFS - Consider Index Rebuilds When Using TLog Backups

Mirroring a TFS DT is a very common action within large environments for a variety of reasons, redundancy and failover obviously being the primary catalysts for such an implementation but there are also a variety of other reasons why this is a beneficial action. At a current client of mine ...

TMG Web publishing for SharePoint HTTPS, No Certificate Usage On TMG

TMG Web publishing for SharePoint HTTPS, No Certificate Usage On TMG

This question came up with a client this morning, which is the first time I have had to answer it but it's a very straightforward issue. What if one is trying to use TMG to publish a SharePoint environment for both HTTP and HTTP access, while the certificate is appropriately ...

ForeFront TMG and Active FTP Issues

ForeFront TMG and Active FTP Issues

While working with a client today, I was informed that they were having issues with a recently converted ISA to TMG instance, using the latest release of TMG. Particularly, the issue was that Active FTP just wasn't plain working when used from a SharePoint financial application that is pretty heavily ...

TeamBuild - Error - Failure: unknown user name or bad password

TeamBuild - Error - Failure: unknown user name or bad password

This particular error can be a pain in the ass to track down, and it will cause Team Build to be unable to create the drop directory. But there are only really two causes for it. 1) You will generally start seeing this error after a problem occurs with a ...

Including Code Coverage Results In TFS Alerts

Including Code Coverage Results In TFS Alerts

Notifications are a fundamental component of a successful SharePoint continuous integration strategy approach. Maintaining continuous feedback on SharePoint products is an important counterpart of continuous integration for realizing agile SharePoint development. Without timely notifications about the status of a build, mostly broken builds, bottle necks can occur which negate the ...


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