The source code for this article is available on CodePlex Introduction If you’ve been developing applications for SharePoint for any length of time you’ll undoubtedly have come into contact with the security model. Based on the asp.net provider model, SharePoint itself does not authenticate users, it merely provides authorisation. That is to say that SharePoint does not verify that users are who they claim to be, it simply makes use of the users identity to determine what resources should be available to the user. Of course this does not mean that user identities are not verified, just that...

December’s looking a bit bare on my blog calendar. I thought I’d better add something before the festivities begin. In truth I’ve been pretty busy over the past few weeks. I spent a few days doing an excellent CTT+ course at Rezound in Sheffield plus I’ve also just started work on a new SharePoint 2010 book for McGraw-Hill. That’s not to mention my outstanding commitment to Wrox to deliver a short e-book on SharePoint 2007 Packaging and Deployment, my ongoing development work and the joys of having two children, one of which hasn’t quite grasped the concept of sleeping yet!...