Search and Basic Authentication

We wanted to add a Default Domain so that the users did not have to enter a domain name to logon to our site. Did that, using Basic Authentication and added our domains on the IIS site. Fine, worked perfectly – the user only had to enter the username and password to logon. Fine. But…. …

Edit the welcome-dropdown menu

If you want to remove the “MySettings” from the user dropdown menu (up in the right corner of a sharepoint page) so that it looks like this instead: Then go to folder:C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions12TEMPLATECONTROLTEMPLATESMake a copy of welcome.ascx!Then open the file Welcome.ascx in NotepadAdd the following attribute to each element you wish …

Forms authentication using the AD

I am setting up an extranet site where the customer wants the user to be logged out after a certain idle time. Since there is no way to make the user logged out using windows authentication, for logical reasons, then I must activate forms authentication. But I dont want to have yet another user register …