I have been involved recently in installing ECTS for a DoD program, and while doing so I have been trying to keep track of the issues and adaptations I have had to make to get ECTS working(deploying, issues, enhancing). This is the fourth in the s ...[Read More]

This is the third blog in a series addressing how to use ECTS in a real world deployment. I first wrote a blog about how to install ECTS (External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint) in a "real world" environment, basically extending a ...[Read More]

Companies are often looking for methods of branding their products to get better name identification. WebParts and Features are perfect items to brand since they can be reused in one or many sites, and the solution packages can handle deploying you ...[Read More]

In my previous post I discussed a COMException that was getting thrown when I attempted a DirectoryEntry.Invoke("SetPassword", password). While developing the work around to just catch any exception thrown by this object MS requested a co ...[Read More]

I was recently developing an account provisioning capability based on the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider which shipped with the .NET 2.0 Framework. On my development machine I noticed that on random occasion I would get an exception thrown, but ...[Read More]

This is the second blog in a series about ECTS. The first blog provides information about how to apply ECTS to an existing/working environment, here I have a list of issues experienced during that installation.     I recently performed an insta ...[Read More]

Microsoft has released the External Collaboration Toolkit from development, so what does this give you and your organization?  Lets start with a little background.  Most companies have internal sites, I'll refer to as internal, that their employ ...[Read More]