Often times it is required to get a reference to the SPList that contains the site directory information, this is an important task when you are considering construction of navigation solutions or when building holistic reporting tools in order to support governance of site sprawl (which is easy to have happen, but sure is a [...]

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Role assignments can be exposed ala ISecurableObject and pretty much everything, in order to support Securable Objects (for item level security,etc.), is an ISecurableObject in SharePoint 2007. So, to begin with, we are going to use ISecurableObject to get assignments in combination with a SPPrincipal (representing a user or group)  via the GetAssignmentByPrincipal method available [...]

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I will be presenting the keynote and a breakout session at Techfuse (NOT TechEd) on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 in Brooklyn Park, MN.
My keynote sessions synopsis is (taking into account I despise esoteric keynotes that are full of marketing, I choose a more pragmatic path )
Title:
Building a Commissionable, Development Aware Virtualized SharePoint Environment
Summary:

Constructing [...]

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I will be presenting at the North Central District Business Intelligence SIG on March 12th, which is actually today so I am a little late in announcing it on the site. I will be presenting a SharePoint security session, so if you are around we will be at the Microsoft offices  at 8300 Norman Center [...]

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The code itself is pretty self explanatory and is very unamazing. Taking the values that are available from the System.Web.Security.MembershipCreateStatus enumeration that specifies the result of the CreateUser operation, here is a switch/case to go through all of them to save you some time when testing the result. Honestly, I just got tired of writing [...]

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