In general, the term refers to the notion of a user being presented with an editable "form" to fill in and submit in order to log in to some system or service.

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People Picker and FBA - partial functionality

So I've read a number of other questions on this topic and believe my situation is different. I have a web application with Forms Authentication. It is configured in the web.config files of central ...
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Failed to Initialize the encryption algorithm

I am using forms based authentication using Sql Memebership Provider and i have configure Sql Membership provider to use Encrypted password format instead of Hashed.I have also copied same machine key ...
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SharePoint 2013 External Users

I'm setting up a brand new SharePoint 2013 server and site, but haven't personally touched SharePoint since 2007. I don't want to use Windows Auth or any Active Directory for user management. Which, ...
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Claims FBA with a remote active directory membership provider

I plan on setting up Claims FBA using the AD membership provider, but I would like to use a AD Domain that is remote (not the domain that the SP Farm lives on). Is this possible? Is it any different ...
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FBA login failed if passwordFormat=“Encrypted” in web.config files

I am using FBA with SqlMembership Provider in sharepoint 2010 and its not working if i set passwordFormat="Encrypted" in all web.configs(web,central,STS) and here is error from ULS Password check on ...
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How can we use facebook login to authenticate to SharePoint

I know SharePoint 2010 has claims based authentication. First off, is it possible to use facebook as the authentication mechanism in SharePoint 2010? If it is possible what are the steps needed from ...
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283 views

How to get SPUser from FBA login name

I have a Form Based Authentication login name login_name how to get an SPUser object for that login name. I have tried the Web.EnsureUser(string.Format("c:0-.f|role|{0}", name)); but it gives me ...
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Configuring Single Sign On (SSO) using FBA for two different web applications

I've created two separate web applications and they are hosted in two different domains. I've configured same FBA membership database for both the applications. How can I configure SSO for these two ...
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Auto login with custom membership provider

My goal is to setup a SSO-like environment (not fully support SSO), with below behaviour: User logon in System_A (java) When user click on a specify link, System_A will generate a security token, ...
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FBA Custom Login Mixed - Access Denied Loops Back to Login Page

I created a custom login page using information from David's site (Thanks David). All works fine except in the following situation: My company has multiple domains - An employee logs into windows ...
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FBA - Search Issue with Custom Login Page

I have implemented FBA on an web application which has a custom login page. The custom page doesn't let the users login via windows authentication even though it is enabled from central admin. Seems ...
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291 views

Strategy for correct external authentication?

I'm a bit confused about the different terminology, components and steps to make my scenario work. I'm working on a SP 2010 platform that can have multiple authentication mechanisms : Anonymous, ...
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Sharepoint 2010 ldap exception FaultException`1 [closed]

i've followed the instruction on the following link: Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010 when user logged in: if the username and the password is wrong a message is appear to ...
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FBA User Profile Creation Access Denied

I'm writing this post because I think I've exhausted every other avenue. Basically I have a Claims-based SharePoint site that has Forms Authentication setup. Everything works well, registrations, etc. ...
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SAML authentication not working properly for the roles

I am facing an issue regarding the authentication in SP 2010. The scenario is below: WindowsTokenLifetime, FormsTokenLifetime and ServiceTokenLifetime are set to 365 days. Login with the user on ...
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PeoplePicker not find users in FBA using multiple domains

I'm facing a problem with my forms authentication that has consumed me some good hours. My forms authentication points to 2 providers. Both are AD using a ldap connection to diferent domains. I have ...
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User not logged in even after Fed Auth shows it's expiration in year 2015

I have an issue regarding the cookies. I have set all 3 FormsTokenLifetime, WindowsTokenLifetime and ServiceTokenLifetime to 365 days and the cookie is persistent. When any user login to the site ...
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SharePoint2010 configured with Win, FBA and SSRS with Integrated,reports working fine but after enable the anonymous subsite reports are not working

Site Details SharePoint web application Enable Windows Authentication with NTLM Enable FBA(With appropriate setting) Reporting Services with Integrated Mode Reports configured with Trusted Account ...
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EnsureUser returns none existing users using ldapprovider

I'm writing a PowerShell script that adds users to a SharePoint site. To check if the user exists I'm calling the EnsureUser. But my issue is that the when calling this method with a ldap membership ...
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AD Role provider for SharePoint 2010

I'm trying to set up a Sharepoint 2010 solution with form based authenication (claims). ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider workes find as memebership provider, we need the be able to add ad groups ...
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Logout user on tab closed

We have site with forms based authentication. When user logs in and closes browser (whole browser) he is logged out. But when he closes tab in which he opened site, he is still logged in when he ...
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using sharepoint 2010 FBA with different webapplications

I'm migrating an existing SharePoint 2007 FBA Single Sign ON Solution to SharePoint 2010. I have three different webapplication all with the same custom membershipprovider. In the validateUser ...
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AAM on External/Internet zone on an FBA webapplication?

I have a web application with FBA configured and have set up AAM's on it: One for Internal users/zone (http://xyz.com) and one for External users/zone (https://xyz.com) I have extended the web ...
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FBA web app user permissions replicate to full control even after login

I have made a web application with Form Based Authentication that uses a custom form. Then each user is suppsed to enter the restricted area with their specific permissions. What happens instead is ...
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Password Recovery webpart in CKS FBA is ignoring the configured email template

I'm using the FBA solution from http://cks.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/94877#85179. The issue I'm facing is that though FBA and the webparts seems to be working correctly, the password ...
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SharePoint FBA Users being removed from SharePoint

I'm using the SharePoint FBA Pack 2010. I have a very unusual issue where users created with the backend, work fine for a while, but at some point they are not SharePoint Users anymore. ie. their ...
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Forgot password in sharepoint with activedirectory membership?

0 Hi I’m working with forgot password link on custom login page having active directory membership(LDAP) For which I need to set web.config of webapplication in sharepoint For example ...
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Windows Forms Application - How to connect to FBA site

I have a SharePoint 2010 web application and site collection with Forms Based Authentication. I am trying to develop a Windows Forms Application to connect to this site but so far the connection ...
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Does the membership seeder tool to add new FBA users, use the createuser method?

Does the membership seeder tool to add new FBA users, use the createuser method? Here is the link from where I downloaded it: http://cks.codeplex.com/releases/view/7450
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How to create a new FBA user programatically using VS 2010?

I am looking to create a new FBA user (explicitly) in the membership db using the membershipuser create user programatically. The purpose is to test permissions using the spfarm account. What is ...
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Cloning a SharePoint Server 2010 (Virtual Machine) production box?

Here is the long and short: Goal: To clone a SharepointProd VM retaining all the webapps and sites in order to debug a custom solution. We have two virtual machines: spTest and spProd. spTest is ...
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SharePoint 2010 Foundation Search not working for Claims Authentication!

I have SharePoint 2010 Foundation site with Web Application named (abc) is created at port 80. It Includes Claims based Authentication enabled in Default Zone. I have both Windows Auth with Ntlm and ...
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Forms Authentication - Login prompt opening office documents

I have a pretty common problem with WSS 3.0 When a user logs on to the site using IE 7/8 and opens a word document from a document library he gets prompted for a login / password. At this point, even ...
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Public Sharepoint site with custom user registration

We are doing a public site with external user registration based on Sharepoint 2010. We have some experience in ASP.NET development but nobody has any experience with Sharepoint. What is a relatively ...
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Central Administration, FBA, and the People Picker

I have a web application using Windows Authentication, which is extended with Forms Based Authentication. That's all fine and dandy. The problem is I can't get the people picker to pull my FBA users ...
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HTTPS Login page not showing browser prompt to remember password

I have a SharePoint 2010 website using a custom FBA login page: https://www.questionmark.com/members/login.aspx The page works fine, meaning that our users can login. The problem is that the browsers ...
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SharePoint People Picker look-up for asp net membership provider not working

We are trying to replicate our 2007 setup of FBA in SharePoint 2010. Create a Web Application that is Windows login for internal users. Extend the Web Application that is for FBA login for external ...
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Get Active Directory user for multiple security provider for EnsureUser()

I have 3 security provider for my web application 1. Active Directory 2. ADFS 3. SAML Now suppose a user exist in all 3 provider.Hence when i do use ensure user method i get error/ exception "user ...
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How to import users to SharePoint after added to SQL for FBA?

I created a stored procedure to import users into SharePoint on the SQL side. Users are able to authenticate with no issues from the SharePoint site. The challenge now is that they don’t show up as ...
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Remember Me in asp:login control is not working properly with FBA authentication

I have created a custom login page for FBA and using asp:login control for login purpose. When I am deselecting the "Remember Me" checkbox then also it's is creating "FedAuth" cookie for that which ...
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NTLM Authenticated Application, FBA, and the People Picker

On the Windows Authenticated side of an extended web application with FBA, the people picker is only working when I also enable FBA through Central Administration for the Windows Authenticated web ...
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Claims FBA with multiple membership providers

Is there a way to use only forms authentication with multiple membership providers? For example, a user would enter their username and password this would attempt to authenticate with, say, the SQL ...
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FedAuth cookie set to expire only 10 hours after creation

I've written a custom login script for my Forms Based Authentication SharePoint 2010 Server website, which allows my users to enter credentials for one of our products, and map them to a FBA user ...
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Overriding the SharePoint ASP:Login control for FBA with code behind

I've searched online at all different documents regarding FBA custom login page for Sharepoint 2010. Nearly everyone I have found, either shows you a custom page, adds a login control and no code ...
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How to create a custom FBA login Page that forces user to change password and view license agreement if required

We have implemented our own MembershipProvider. I inherited the SQLMembership provider used the Microsoft ASP Membership SQL database. We have extended this database so that you could set a bit flag ...
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How to Set Forms Authentication Timeout?

I have a public facing SP2010 site that uses forms authentication (default ASP.NET membership provider). I noticed that The user stays logged in even after hours of inactivity. We need the user to be ...
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Windows Auth and Forms with LDAP provider - merge identity?

I have a need to handle two unique authentication scenarios: "Off network" - provide a login form (Forms based auth) "In Network" - traditional windows auth / no form This is the same user base - ...
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FBA SharePoint 2010 and login in Word

I have tried to get into Claim based authentication using FBA as with AspNetSqlRoleProvider and AspNetSqlMembershipProvider, I got it up and running. But there is one issue I can't get my head around. ...
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Client Extranet with SharePoint 2010, how to prevent employees from giving clients permissions that would allow client to see all FBA users?

I am a development manager and one of the sys admin and I are trying to build a "Client Extranet", which is a fancy name for a SharePoint 2010 web application with sites that employees and clients can ...
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Add users from custom membershipprovider without enabling FBA

I have a Web application with 2 zones. Default: used by users on the inside using AD. Extranet: used by external users using a custom membership provider What I want is for the users in the ...