Configuration, administration, and resources in SharePoint

For information about planning, administration, configuration, deployment, migration, upgrades, setting up claims, or security in general, see the IT and administrators documentation and guidelines on Microsoft TechNet.

The following are links to some of the documentation and guidelines on TechNet:

• Plan for authentication methods

• Configure claims authentication

• Security and protection for SharePoint Foundation 2010

• Custom claims providers for People Picker

• People Picker and claims provider planning

• Plan security for sites and content

• Plan security hardening

• Plan sandboxed solutions

• Plan site permissions

• Plan automatic password change

• Security and permissions administration

• User permissions and permission levels

• Business Connectivity Services security overview

• Configure forms-based authentication for a claims-based web application

• Configure the security token service

• Configure Kerberos authentication for the claims to Windows Token Service

• Security cmdlets (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

Note

For information about Windows Identity Foundation (WIF), see the Windows Identity Foundation SDK.

The following tables list blogs, forums, and additional resources about claims-based identity and general security in SharePoint Server. Table 1. Blogs

Blog Name	Links
Microsoft SharePoint Developer Team Blog	Blog home page

Table 2. Forums

Forum Name	Links
SharePoint Products and Technologies Forums	Forum home page

Table 3. Additional resources

Additional Resources	Links
Claims and Security: Technical Articles Node	Claims and security: Technical articles and code samples on MSDN
Security and Authentication for SharePoint Foundation 2010	Security and Authentication for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Resource Center on TechNet
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 on TechNet	Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 on TechNet
Security Resource Center	Security Resource Center on MSDN
Windows PowerShell for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Reference	Security cmdlets (SharePoint Foundation 2010)
Security Resource Center	Security Resource Center on TechNet
Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) SDK	Windows Identity Foundation documentation on MSDN
Microsoft patterns & practices	A guide to claims-based identity and access control
.NET Framework Class Library	.NET Framework Class Library

See also

• Authentication, authorization, and security in SharePoint

• Authorization, users, groups, and the object model in SharePoint

• Role, inheritance, elevation of privilege, and password changes in SharePoint

• Claims-based identity in SharePoint

• Claims-based identity and concepts in SharePoint