Introduction
SURFconext can be used as group provider for service providers. You can manage and use groups within SURFteams or within external group providers. This article describes how you can use SharePoint 2010 as external group provider from SURFconext. The interface of the group provider is based on the VOOT protocol. See: Microsoft Active Directory as a Group Provider for more information about the VOOT protocol.
What is the approach?
First of all we have to decide how to get group and user information from SharePoint 2010. Are we going to use SharePoint webservice (eg. UserGroups.asmx), is adding the VOOT REST interface to SharePoint a solution or can we solve this be using a seperate webservice that uses the SharePoint Client component to access the required information?
To be continued...