Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint
Friday, July 27, 2007
If you search the Internet you will find some very good instructions for setting up forms based authentication (FBA) in both Windows SharePoint Services v3 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS2007). I won’t rehash all those instructions here. However I do want to make a couple of observations. One person actually posted about a missing step which involves ensuring that the user account that your SharePoint Application Pool runs under has permission in your SQL Server.…
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Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint Part 2
Friday, July 27, 2007
In the first post I said that there are a lot of good instructions for setting up Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint. I’m still not going to rehash those instructions, because for the most part they are easy. Setup the database, add a user or two, configure SharePoint for forms authentication and let it know the DB info. Simple right? So let’s complicate it a bit. If you follow the instructions and hit your SharePoint site you’ll get a SharePoint looking login page.…
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