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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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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171 views
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 ...
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Same public URL on two zones?
I have a default and an extended "Extranet" zone on one of my web application.
I would like to assign a single URL "https://Name.myDomain.com" to both zones.
Additionally I also want to be able to ...
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Sharepoint seeking authentication when opening Word / Excel files from website
The company I work for is using SharePoint as a CMS for it's public facing website. I recently enabled FBA (Forms Based Authentication) for the site in order to provide some user specific ...
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Is it necessary to add AD users or groups seperately to Windows Auth mode application and extended FBA app when target site is same?
I have an "Intranet" web application "http://ABC.com" created under claims mode with Windows authentication. This Web app uses users and groups from Active Directory.
Say I have 2 security groups ...
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Incomplete Office Integration
A simple SharePoint 2010 installation which uses Forms-based authentication (its an extranet) via MSSQL/.Net with a site that contains a document library fails to show up in the Favorites list of the ...
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User details changed in FBA module does not update in People Picker
When I change User details in FBA module, the same is not reflected in People Picker.
Ex:
The original FBA users link shows the latest email address. However, in the People Picker and in THE FBA ...
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Enabling forms based authentication for existing Sharepoint Web Application
I have an site collection in a web application for which I need to enable forms based authentication (rather than using the standard Windows/AD authentication).
I followed the rather good ...
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Create new UDC data connection with windows service user account
About a month ago we had a MOSS RAP meeting with MS Sharepoint Experts, they recommende us to use service user account to run the Sharepoint instances and our custom services too.
We did it and it ...
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AuthenticateFormsUser with no password
I believe in SharePoint 2007 you could authenticate a user programatically (without a password) using something like this:
FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(username, false);
In SharePoint ...
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126 views
Export to excel option not work for FBA site
I have publishing site where i am using the FBA authentication with custom login page. Everything is working fine but when i am trying to export to excel from list its not work.
Even i am not able to ...
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FBA and Profiles - My Site
I've been using the FBA pack for while, and added some custom fields by basically following what the code does and extra variables here and there. It's all working, I can see the values from my ...
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535 views
Remove extra sign-in step after enabling Forms Based Authentication
Now that I have enabled Forms Based Authentication (FBA) on my sharepoint site, there is an extra Sign-In page where I have to select what type of authentication I wish to use. I pretty much want ...
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SharePoint 2010 FBA - 401 Unauthorized
I Converted a sharepoint 2010 web application which has default zone and Extranet zone to use claims based authentication instead of classic mode. I followed this article http://bit.ly/bvv3CT to ...
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1answer
736 views
SP2010 Web Services: GetUserInfo and FBA?
I'm trying to use the SharePoint 2010 SOAP web services to get/update User information, which seems to work OK when the user comes from Active Directory, but not when trying to find a user in Forms ...
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1answer
404 views
Digital Signature Modal from InfoPath Form in SharePoint 2010
I currently have 4 views created in InfoPath, using Form Load for a Approval Process in SharePoint 2010. I would like to use Digital Signatures for each approvers signature but the Modal view that ...
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Claims/Forms Auth and Secure Store - good use?
I have a need to provide single sign on capabilities within the same enterprise - meaning sometimes I'll need access to the user's name and password. A few examples:
SSO to OWA (forms based)
SSO ...
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1answer
233 views
Creating a custom authentication provider for SharePoint 2010
I am trying to implement the "best" solution for a custom authentication mechanism in a SharePoint 2010 Extranet site.
Here is how I would define "best":
Does not require purchasing additional ...
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1answer
450 views
CQWP throwing security validation error when selecting list
I am currently building an intranet portal which is highly dependent on content query web parts. I am having an issue where when I go to select a list from the popup, it throws an error.
The ...
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Authenticate user before getting a SPUserToken object
I know that a user can be impersonated by using an SPUserToken object when constructing an SPSite.
I need to authenticate the user before getting a token for the user as I am developing an ...
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3answers
297 views
FBA and applicationName
I have created a custom membership provider for FBA (SharePoint 2010).
My CustomMembershipProvider (+ role provider) are defined in the 3 web.config (CA, STS, webapp).
In web.config of webapp, I set ...
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1answer
223 views
Multiple mysite hosts + fba
I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this. I need to create a mysite host for an FBA site in SP2010 (I'm already researching the FBA particulars parallel to this, but if anyone could give a ...
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153 views
FBA and MemberShipProvider
Do we always need to extend web app when using FBA?
I know it seems a silly question, but I can't find a straight answer.
EDIT: SharePoint 2010
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1answer
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Mysite signin repeats in IE
For some reason my claimsbased mysite hosts won't let me login - it authenticates my credentials, but instead of taking me to mysite, it just refreshes the login page?
It only does this in IE - I get ...
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2answers
900 views
SharePoint 2010 FBA: Redirect on Sign Out
I'm using the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack http://sharepoint2010fba.codeplex.com/. Basically, I want to redirect to the homepage once a user Sign's out. I'm unable to find this. Could someone please help ...
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Can't access the 'Site Settings' page after enabling Forms Based Authentication
I've setup Forms Based Authentication on my Sharepoint site using various online tutorials. It has both FBA and Windows Authentication and everything works as expected apart from the 'Site Settings' ...
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1answer
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Changing users DisplayName isn't permanent (i:0#.f|… issue)
We're having the issue where user's names shown after logging in are being preffixed with the membership provider information, e.g. i:0#.f|fbamembershipprovider|myemail@q... (note that we're using FBA ...
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2answers
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How could I log on the Central Administration by Form Based Authentication user
I noticed that there is a value PeoplePicker which may control this. But I dont know how to do it.
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185 views
“Default Reader Site Group” people picker not retrieving SQL FBA users?
I have an issue with people picker for SQL FBA users in SSP admin site for "My Site Settings" page. I have added provider and role information SSP admin web.config file. And also I added "connection ...
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1answer
1k views
How to Add user for form authentication in sharepoint 2010?
I confirgured the form authentication. but i am not able to create the users for login using form authentication .
When i want add user in the Policy for Web Application, I search User , Noticeable ...
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1answer
198 views
SharePoint Licensing using FBA
I've a remaining question in my head... If i use FBA for authenticate my users, does it changes the licensing volume of my SharePoint farm?
Using FBA my users are almost SQL Server side and could not ...
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1answer
1k views
Server Error in '/' application while trying to sign in as an FBA user?
I have setup windows and forms based authentication on one of my web applications and have an issue while trying to sign in as fbaadmin. fbaadmin is one of the users I have added to the FBADB on ...
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how to create sharepoint custom login page
Im creating custom login page for sharepoint that will use Forms Based Authenitcation. I've read couple articles how to do it, but something is not clear to me.
What class should my Login.aspx (and ...
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3answers
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What are the advantages of Active Directory over FBA?
I am on FBA (Claim-based) Authentication and plan to migrate to Active Directory. My System is SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites. I want to know what additional benefits I will gain if I migrate to ...
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ldap and user profile attributes
I have an extended webapp that uses the LDAP provider so users can log in without the fun windows integrated popup. I configured the User Profile Sync Application to use my Forms/LDAP Provider and ...
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3answers
3k views
FBA and the People Picker
I have Windows and Forms Based Authentication enabled for my Web Application.
All three web.configs (Central Admin, Security Token Service and Application) are correctly configured to use a custom ...
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1answer
505 views
Combine Forms Authentication with Windows Authentication
A client wants to allow both AD users and non-AD users access to a SharePoint site. I have done similar work before on a ASP.NET site but that required a custom MembershipProvider.
Is there a way to ...
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2answers
2k views
Add FBA role to SharePoint 2010 group
I've setup FBA for SharePoint 2010 following these instructions:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaevans/archive/2010/07/09/sql-server-provider-for-claims-based-authentication-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx
It ...
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3answers
452 views
FBA Authentication with Custom Database
I want to implement forms based authentication for a sharepoint portal. I have used the standard ASP.NET membership provider database for test purpose and it work fine.
My client has Authentication ...
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1answer
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how to administer forms based authentication in sp2010 foundation
I have a public facing site for community to exchange information efficiently. I have different subsites within that site. I want to provide users forms based authentication to log in to the system. ...
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2answers
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Forms Authentication, persistent cookie needed by IE, but not Firefox or Chrome
I have a WSS 3.0 internet facing site which we have configured to use forms authentication. We have customized the login page to remove the 'remember me' check box. We have problems with users not ...
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1answer
895 views
Opera browser shows 403 FORBIDDEN
Opera browser gives 403 FORBIDDEN when trying to access my SharePoint site. The site uses FBA authentication and is an internet facing site. In IIS logs I can see that Opera has requested the favicon. ...
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1answer
511 views
Methods of sharing authentication between SharePoint 2010 and ASP.NET applications?
We're evaluating ways of sharing authentication (to achieve an SSO effect or actual SSO) with SharePoint 2010 and several ASP.NET applications.
The options I've seen so far are to configure ...
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1answer
1k views
Programmatically create MySites for Users with FBA
I am trying to create MySites for users programmatically but I am receiving the following error:
My Site creation failure for user '' for site URL 'http://goaccel-app2:1000/sites/mysites/personal/'.
...
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3answers
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Integrating SharePoint user profiles with forms authentication
I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I have deployed a publishing portal. It is using a custom forms authentication solution, i.e. I store user names, ...
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2answers
710 views
ValidateUser of Forms Authentication issue
I am using SharePoint 2007 Enterprise + Publishing portal template + Windows Server 2008. And I am developing using ASP.Net + C# + .Net 3.5 + VSTS 2008 on SharePoint Server 2007. I am developing a ...
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1answer
328 views
Forms authentication login page issue
I am using SharePoint 2007 Enterprise + Publishing portal template + Windows Server 2008. And I am developing using ASP.Net + C# + .Net 3.5 + VSTS 2008 on SharePoint Server 2007. I am developing a ...
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4answers
433 views
How to set anonymous user as a specific user
I am using SharePiont Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I am developing using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5. I am wondering whether SharePoint has any means to set an anonymous ...
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1answer
676 views
Site output cache with Forms authentication in a sub site
I have a Sharepoint 2007 puiblishing site. The top level site is purely anonymous and one of the children is using Forms authentication using Custom membership provider. The Admin site is using ...
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1answer
528 views
Can I use the audience targeting with FBA using Custom Provider?
Is there a way to use Custom Membership provider with Audience targetting?
The only way I found to do so is to duplicate the user creation by adding the user to Sharepoint group in addition to adding ...
