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CKS: Windows Live Authentication
I know it has been a little while since I have posted something.  I have been working on the Community Kit for SharePoint in the last few weeks.  I have been working on the Enhanced Blog Edition, but probably the bigger contribution was incorporating my Windows Live Authentication implementation in to the CKS.  I took what I had from my 1.0 release and rolled it in to the CKS solution.  I am a member of the Puget Sound SharePoint User Group and they decided to use the new CKS: WLA module which showed something was missing, so I added profile syncronization to my initial release.  What this really means is that going forward I will be doing my work in the CKS project on CodePlex so feel free to get involved as well!
 
Lawrence Liu has some screenshots and additional information posted on the SharePoint Team Blog here.

Comments

Sunil

Hi
I have downloaded the versoin from Codeplex and its working great. I have one problem with live ID GUID. So when ever user is logging into the page and add some thing, system is showing their GUID insted of name. is there anyway we can get the User Name insted of GUID for display purpose?
Eg : its showing as "From: b6120643b12e9147ae69336e45a0d0ae"..
Any help is highly appreciated .
Keith Bunge at 4/22/2008 11:50 PM

guid

as long as the user has set a display name using thw welcome drop down you should see that instead.  there are some "issues" with how sync happens, but having the user update from there should force a refresh.
Keith Bunge at 4/22/2008 11:50 PM

How to avoid the site action menu.

Thanks for the reply..can you let me know how to set a display name/ do we have any samples/ blog on that?

Another issue we are facing is..if we give limited acceess, its always giving an access denied error. after logging. So we have provided the read access to the visitors. Because of this, for all the users the site action button got enabled.

Is there any way we can get rid of the site action menu for non admin users? Currently this is a showstopper for us.
Keith Bunge at 4/22/2008 11:50 PM

Windows Live ID GUID vs. PUID

Hi Keith,
I have configured a SharePoint site to use CKS:WLA module. I have a requirement to consume a database of existing users for authorization. User profiles are identified by older passport user id (PUID.)
Is there any way that a WLID can be mapped to corresponding PUID?
Thanks,
Amit
Keith Bunge at 4/22/2008 11:50 PM

Windows Live Authentication "Catch 22" issue.

Hi Keith,

I have been trying to install and configure WLA 1.0  for about 3 hours, and I have come to the point where I don't know what else to try. As the ReadMe suggest, I have the ProfSite set to a site that has restricted access (permissions inheritance broken) (http://W/useradmin), and I have the site I want to control through WLA (http://W/).  The problem I have, which I call "catch 22", is that once I click on the "Sign In" link on http://W/,  after I enter my email address (Windows Live ID) that is stored in the Sharepoint List, I have no idea on how to add myself as an administrator of the site. I cannot use a Windows Account, because we are using Forms Authentication, and I can't access the People and Groups page with my WLID (because it doesn't have access to the site). The only thing I see, is the "Welcome <32 char ID>" on the screen, but I don't have access to anything). Bottom line, my question is... how can I give myself access first, so I can then give others access?

Thanks,

Carlos
Keith Bunge at 4/22/2008 11:50 PM

Membership Provider vs. Role Provider

We are building a custom form solution that behaves very similar to Windows Live Authentication. What led you to creating a custom rolw provider as well as a membership provider?
Keith Bunge at 4/22/2008 11:50 PM