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)

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

Table 2. Forums

Table 3. Additional resources

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