Understanding SharePoint Application Security and Elevating Privileges

Martin Hatch, Solutions Architect

This post was prompted because of a particularly challenging bit of security that I needed to traverse. I needed some way of presenting the status of a Content Deployment Job (configured in Central Administration) in the Web Application that it relates to.

Seems pretty straight forward?
Well, its not, and this article will hopefully explain why.

Building a SharePoint 2007/2010 development environment - Part VI: Issues and Results

Tristan Watkins, Infrastructure Consultant
In the first five parts of this series I covered the project objectives and the system design, then turned my attention to the Hyper-V host image build, automated deployment and the guest virtual machine build. In this post I review some of the questions and issues we've encountered after a few months of working this way and some overall reflections on the approach.