Chart: Domain User Accounts Required before Installing MOSS 2007

Below is a chart of the user accounts required before installing MOSS 2007 / Sharepoint 2007 when installed in a server farm. This table is a must for every sharepoint developer/adminsitrator. Thanks to Clayton for his blog post who put the ever confusing user accounts in a neat descriptive table.

Account
Purpose
 
Used By
 
Requirements

Setup User
User account that [...]

Free Trial Virtual Hard disks/ Virtual PC Images To Test Microsoft Technologies

Go to Microsoft’s Free Virtual HDD Site : You should be able to download the virtual images for all technologies and play aroudn with the cutting edge technologies like Windows 2008, VS 2008, Biztalk, Sharepoint(MOSS 2007), Office 2007 and etc. You need Virtual Server 2005 to run these images and its a 30 day evaluation [...]

11 Essential Tools for Managing Active Directory

If you’ve ever been handed an Excel spreadsheet listing 200 new employees starting next week, or if your user accounts are configured incorrectly because help desk staff clicked something they shouldn’t have, or if you just want an easier way to manage Active Directory® besides opening Users and Computers every time, there are a number [...]

Custom Authentication using SiteMinder for MOSS

WSS 3.0 and MOSS custom authentication using a third-party component (SiteMinder). – Vlad’s Blog
I stumbled upon the above blog post which talks about implementing the custom authentication using Forms based authentication to authenticate users through SiteMinder. I have read couple of other blogs about the same topic but this blog is unique, it explains well [...]

Multiple or Dual Authentication for a Single Web Application in Sharepoint Office System 2007

Below two blog posts are an excellent help if anyone is looking for implementing more than one authentication mechanism.

Blog by Dan Attis
Blog by Andrew Connell

Let me clarify why would someone look for implementing multiple authentication: Usually companies and corporations have their user or employee accounts in Windows Active Directory. When Sharepoint/MOSS is installed [...]

IIS Authentication Model and Options

IIS 6.0 Authentication Model: An important part of many distributed applications is the ability to identify someone, known as a principal or client, and to control the client’s access to resources. Authentication is the act of validating a client’s identity. Generally, clients must present some form of evidence, known [...]

Select Site Columns Quickly

A Tip For SharePoint Developers: XSLT Is Your Friend
In this blog entry it is explained how you can leverage XSLT to transform the fieldref.xml file to find the site columns quickly. The XSLT filters the field name and the field-ref xml snippet so that one copy – paste in the features xml file.

First Step Towards Migration of Sharepoint 2003 to 2007

Install and run the pre-upgrade scan tool (Link)

Download and install the pre-upgrade scan tool from the Microsoft Download center (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=92383). You must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer to run this tool.
On the command line, change to the folder that contains the two files, and then run the following command [...]