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• Who has approval rights on a list or library?

  The question of the day comes from Jennifer at Stump the Panel: When Content Approval is enable for a doc. library or list who is considered the Approver? Is it possible to change the Approver? Here’s a direct quote from the ‘Help’ menu... Posted Nov 13 2008, 11:29 AM by End User SharePoint Filed under: Security, Libraries and Lists, Mark Miller, Question of the Day

• How To Lock Anonymous Users out of Forms pages (ViewFormsPagesLockdown Feature)

  There’s quite a bit of planning that you can do to configure and enable anonymous access In SharePoint 2007. When you enable anonymous access, users will be able to access your view form pages (http://server/forms/allitems.aspx) without logging... Posted Oct 23 2008, 03:38 PM by SharePoint BUZZ Filed under: Security, ui, Provisioning, SharePoint Data Store, Forms and Views, Authentication, Pages

• It’s all Joel’s fault…

  Here we go - another cleverworkarounds waffle! Now we all know that Joel Oleson is the Russell Crowe of the SharePoint world! I mean, he’s multi-skilled, loads of talent, has the respect of his peers and has built a well deserved reputation of being... Posted Oct 13 2008, 11:30 PM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: Offbeat, Strategy, Governance, Risk, Security, Assurance

• Complexity bites: When SharePoint = Risk

  think as you age, you become more and more like your parents. Not so long ago I went out paintballing with some friends and we all agreed that the 16-18 year olds who also happened to be there were all obnoxious little twerps who needed a good kick in... Posted Sep 24 2008, 10:47 AM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: Project Management, planning, Strategy, SharePoint, Governance, Risk, ITIL, Sarbanes-Oxley, Security, SQL Server, Infrastructure, SAN, Storage

• Sometimes "Microsoft bashing" is justified

  Microsoft bashing is a favourite pastime of many a nerd. Whether it is justified or not in many cases is debatable since M$ will never please everyone. But the point is, it is cathartic and in actual fact, good therapy because venting your frustrations... Posted Sep 16 2008, 04:59 AM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: Governance, Risk, Troubleshooting, Security, SQL Server, Infrastructure, Active Directory

• Not Good Enough Stories…

  Bill, a former colleague of mine who is very technically savvy, has a little corner of the blogspace called www.notgoodenough.net. Here he posts about the everyday dumb issues that he comes across that make his working life that little bit harder. By... Posted Sep 01 2008, 05:17 AM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: Risk, Troubleshooting, Security

• All in the name of "security"…

  Here is a recent little story about when, in the name of "security", a really dumb thing was done, and the response that said a lot about the security posture of those behind the response. A client of mine has 4 servers (2 for an Active Directory... Posted Aug 24 2008, 11:42 AM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: Offbeat, SharePoint, Governance, Risk, Security, Active Directory

• Got Long MOSS Service Account Names?

  Are you planning on creating and using some long-named MOSS service accounts? Maybe something like TestMOSSMySiteAdmin01 or TestMOSSSSPAppPool01? Well if you do, then take note – I’ve had two separate occasions where I have an AD account with more than... Posted Jul 24 2008, 01:43 PM by Jack of all that is Microsoft, Master of None Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, MOSS 2007, Security, Active Directory

• Using google to find potentially misconfigured SharePoint sites

  Those in the security community who have ever performed vulnerability assessment/penetration testing will know of the Google Hacking database. Google is actually a very handy tool to look for potentially vulnerable sites, due to the fact that it will... Posted Jul 21 2008, 08:11 PM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: planning, SharePoint, Governance, Risk, Security

• A neat trick with the publishing feature

  As I mentioned in my last post, I always security trim SharePoint. A very common issue with a security trimmed SharePoint is the "access denied" message that you receive when trying to activate the "Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure"... Posted Jul 19 2008, 10:47 AM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: SharePoint, Troubleshooting, Security

• Good advice hidden in the Infrastructure Update

  I guess the entire SharePoint world now is aware of the post SP1 "Infrastructure updates" put out by Microsoft recently. Probably the best thing about them are that the flaky "content deployment" feature has had some serious work done... Posted Jul 19 2008, 04:41 AM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: SharePoint, Troubleshooting, Security, SQL Server, Infrastructure

• WSS Navigation - Flyouts, Security Trimming & Custom Nav Items

  I’ve been working with a client on a WSS site deployment, and one of our big sticking points has been with the out-of-the-box WSS navigation. The client set the following requirements for the navigation: Must be security trimmed - so if you don’t... Posted May 09 2008, 06:30 PM by Jack of all that is Microsoft, Master of None Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, WSS, Fly Out Menus, Windows SharePoint Services, Navigation, Security, WSS 3.0, Security Trimming

• Web Content Management - Allow reviewers to see drafts and nothing else

  Scenario: You have a public-facing site with WCM/Publishing enabled. Active Directory authentication is used for your content creators, editors & approvers. Your anonymous users can browse most portions of the site without logging in, however, there... Posted Apr 16 2008, 01:13 PM by Jack of all that is Microsoft, Master of None Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, MOSS 2007, Security, Permissions, Web Content Management, WCM, Publishing