Monthly Archives: August 2010

External Content Types – SQL Auth, NO Kerberos

It’s so easy, even I can do it!  In SharePoint 2010, Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is what used to be the BDC in SharePoint 2007.  With the BCS, you create External Content Types (ECT) that let you define a connection to a database or web service that is external to SharePoint. The actual steps of the creation of the External

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InfoPath User Roles in Browser Forms (Part 1 of 2)

This blog post applies to the Enterprise version of SharePoint, not WSS or Foundation. There’s a concept in InfoPath called “User Roles”.  You can set up these roles, and when a person opens the form, the form knows if they belong to a certain role, and you can set up certain objects to hide or show in the form based on the

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