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Latest Free SharePoint Software

ARB Security Solutions regularly releases free SharePoint software, including WebParts, Client Applications, Framework Extensions, and other Miscellaneous Components.
The most recent freeware is:

Title: Simple SharePoint Rollup WebPart
Date Published: 10/22/2009

Previous Two Free WebPart Releases:

SecureCenter For SharePoint

By SharePoint security integrators, for SharePoint security integrators.

SharePoint Security Assurance Program™

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!

Security Assurance WebPart:



Here is some quick reference material when reading through the claims stuff on the site to help with some of the terminology.
SAML – Security Assertion Markup Language
The SAML is an XML based standard and it allows for the exchanges between authorizing and authenticating data that is sent from an issuer to an application. There are [...]


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I went ahead and continued to expand the claims based authentication archive on the site with 10 more CBA articles.
So, inclusive of the following Understanding SharePoint Claims Based Authentication series posted two weeks ago:

Understanding Claims-Based Authentication (CBA) Series
SharePoint Claims Based Authentication – The Basics of Identity Frameworks
SharePoint Claims Based Authentication – Working With Identity in Applications
SharePoint Claims Based [...]


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http://www.darkreading.com/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212903345
This is kinda funny, I don’t know why I hadn’t read this until now. Look for the following section:
And just last month, Microsoft patched a vulnerability in SharePoint 2008 and Search Server 2008 that might allow users to access parts of the SharePoint server and execute administrative tasks.
 
One out of two ain’t bad I guess.


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I know there are better ways of getting SharePoint field values then indexing the SPListItem for a particular field and using archaic string manipulation to make things dance. But sometimes when you are retrofitting a legacy application it can be intrusive to the holistic application and cause all sorts of issues in other portions.
While doing [...]


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Programmatically controlling Code Access Security in a SharePoint environment is an extremely powerful approach allowing one to toggle behavior for code access demands for managed code. Outside of that, it’s actually a performance increase even though I am not saying that the side effects are worth the negligible operation amplification. Mostly, the tactic is employed [...]


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