Microsoft Competency Changes
Today, the merging of the new Microsoft Competencies was instituted.
The ISV, Web Development and Software Development Competencies have been merged to form a new competency called Application Development.
Category: SharePoint
Office 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013 Released to Manufacturing
Microsoft Office 2013 along with the other branded 2013 applications and server products have been release to manufacturing and are now available for download from the MSDN, Technet or Microsoft Partner web site.
Brite Global attains Portals and Collaboration Competency
Brite Global attains the Silver Portals and Collaboration competency.
By attaining he Portals and Collaboration competency, we have now demonstrated that we have the skills and proven experience in meeting team and organizational collaboration and connectivity needs across intranets, extranets and internet applications. This will help our customers build rich collaboration solutions that connect teams, improve access to information and increase productivity.
Fixing the tp_Title field reverting to Membership Provider username
If you are using Forms Based Authentication for you SharePoint site you might encounter the site displaying a user name such as “i:0#.f|sql-membershipprovider|username” instead of just “username”.
Hide the SharePoint Ribbon
The ribbon in SharePoint 2010 is visible to users regardless of the user’s permission. Even for anonymous users it will show up (just with the Navigate Up button). In order to hide the SharePoint ribbon from users, we will need to modify the master page or pages that are available to users without permissions.
FBA and Friendly Display Name with SharePoint 2010 and MOSS 2007
When implementing Forms Based Authentication (FBA), SharePoint retrieves the tp_title field from the UserInfo table in the WSS_Content* database to display the name of logged in user.