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.
3
votes
2answers
3k views
improve People Picker search on a claims-based-authentification server (forms-based; FBA)
Long story short: On a SharePoint 2010 Server solution, which is using forms-based-authentification only, I want that the people picker search dialog works like any other usable search.
Rightnow it ...
1
vote
0answers
301 views
SharePoint FBA and Custom data - SharePoint 2010
I'm not sure I'm doing this in the right way, but I was hoping someone here could guide me.
I have an application that I'm creating, allows users to create accounts, login, view their billing ...
3
votes
3answers
1k views
Authenticate Windows user on Web Application using dual authentication and custom login page
What I have?
I have configured FBA in one of the web applications with out of the box login page having dropdown box to select the either windows or FBA login. Everything is working fine.
What I ...
1
vote
1answer
148 views
Claims based authentication and adding users
I set up claims based authentication on one of our web applications. It works with forms authentication. There are 20,000 users that need to access to this site but I don't know how to add them. Do I ...
1
vote
1answer
293 views
Error Adding FBA User as Site Collection Administrator
I'm having a problem trying to add an ASP.NET Membership (SQL Provider) user as a site collection administrator in WSS3.
My user can log into the front end website and can manage their profile ...
2
votes
2answers
300 views
Are there any way to change the Membership Provider & Role Manager through code or Powershell
I know that you can specify the Membership provider and Role manager for a web application on creation, but I need to update it after creation. any clue.
0
votes
2answers
1k views
How to enable MySites?
I am unable to see MySites page on my SP2010 environment. I am on FBA, is this the reason that MySites is not shown? Please let me know what to do?
0
votes
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
744 views
How to change authentication from FBA to Active Directory?
Is there a way to change authentication from FBA to Active Directory?
Since I am on FBA (claims based), I am unable to use many features of SP2010 like MySites etc.
I would appreciate if someone can ...
1
vote
2answers
413 views
How do I change People Search to show full names instead of login names?
People Search is showing login names instead of full names
i.e. in case of showing John Doe it is showing johnd when searched
Is there a way to change it?
I am on FBA.
1
vote
2answers
503 views
SharePoint 2010 Unique FBA Accounts Per Site Collection
We are trying to make it so that we can have a single Web Application that uses FBA that has 1-n site collections below that. However, we would like the permissions for each site collection to be ...
0
votes
2answers
2k views
Unable to login from custom login page - FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage fail
I created custom login page for FBA access (SP 2010). In related custom code i inherit Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.Pages.FormsSignInPage class.
Problem: I would like to login in sharepoint ...
1
vote
1answer
341 views
SPClaimsAuthMembershipProvider returns only aspnetdb users - WHY?
If I use :
MembershipProvider membership = Membership.Providers["AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"];
MembershipUserCollection msc = membership.GetAllUsers(0, 200000, out totalnumber);
I got all userS ...
3
votes
2answers
742 views
FBA custom login page - membership provider returns “The method or operation is not implemented.”
My SP web application use FBA authentication (AD and aspnetSQLmembership providers). I want log in to SP site from custom SP login page. In code-behind page (my class inherit ...
6
votes
1answer
2k views
How do I avoid redirection for web service authentication in SharePoint 2010 when both claims and classic auth is allowed?
I have a SharePoint 2010 web application that allows both claims authentication and classic authentication. The Default claims provider for the web application has "Enable Windows Authentication" and ...
3
votes
3answers
181 views
Is there a tool that can let me manage MemberShip SqlProvider names/passwords in SharePoint?
Currently we have a SQL Provider setup to manage a SharePoint Site Collection via Forms Based Authentication. However I currently have no real tools to manage the users within. I'd like to get a ...
1
vote
1answer
50 views
Activating MySites problem
We have FBA on SP2010.
This is for Activating My Sites - But I have understood that does not happen without user profile services. We have activated it in Site features but in central admin it has ...
1
vote
1answer
327 views
Microsoft Search Server express 2010 Not crawling pages with forms authentication
I can't configure search server to use forms authentication during crawling. I have created crawl rule and set form credentials there with no errors. But during crawl Search server is still considered ...
0
votes
1answer
163 views
How to add search box to FBA User Management page?
I have FBA on SP2010.
I need a search box on http://mysite/_layouts/FBA/Management/UsersDisp.aspx
It's very cumbersome to find one particular user in 1000+ database.
Can someone please help me out ...
5
votes
6answers
528 views
LiveID SharePoint 2010 Integration
I'm trying to configure the LiveId integration with SharePoint 2010.
MS Service Manager Settings:
Domain name: domain.com
DNS: urn:subdomain-dev:int
Default Return URL: ...
0
votes
1answer
423 views
error on browsing to homepage of public sharepoint 2010 site
I have created a public SharePoint 2010 site called http://xyz.com and when I browse to it I see the following;
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:42:23 GMT
...
1
vote
2answers
428 views
UserNotFoundException with ActivityManager
Here is a weird situation. The site works with forms based authentication. I need to get the activity feed of the current user. As you know in FBA mode login names are prefixed with ...
2
votes
1answer
422 views
Microsoft.Office.Server.Security.LdapMembershipProvider Alternative
I have a SP 2010 set up using claims based authentication and the Microsoft.Office.Server.Security.LdapMembershipProvider provider. Everything for user authentication works perfectly but when I try ...
1
vote
1answer
634 views
What Causes a Blank Screen When a Registered User Views a Page?
I have a fairly simple page in WSS3. It's basically a web part page with a custom webpart to display some text and a embedded video from Vimeo, a custom webpart to handle newsletter submissions (a ...
1
vote
1answer
1k views
SharePoint 2010 - Dual Authentication - FBA works, Windows doesn't
I have a new SP 2010 web-application configured for Claims authentication, with both 'windows' and 'forms' authentication.
Initially, I created a root site collection, set a windows ...
0
votes
1answer
208 views
FormatAccountName exception after logging into Forms site
I've started receiving the following Sharepoint exception whenever I log a user in via Forms Authentication;
Value cannot be null. at
...
1
vote
2answers
372 views
Creating Users for Formbased Authentication In SharePoint 2010 Using SharePoint Object Model?
I followed this http://donalconlon.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/configuring-forms-base-authentication-for-sharepoint-2010-using-iis7/ to setup a sharepoint site with forms based authentication, and it ...
0
votes
2answers
287 views
How to modify user account in FBA authentication
I have an installation of Sharepoint Foundation 2010 configured in Mixed Authentication (Windows + Form Based).
I would like to know how to modify the account of a FBA user like this one
...
0
votes
2answers
2k views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
242 views
Custom properties of logged in user
I have written a custom membership provider for forms-based authentication to our SP site. The membership provider authenticates against our existing Users table in our DB.
There are a few bits of ...
1
vote
3answers
1k views
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 ...
0
votes
2answers
251 views
Form Based Authentication in Wss 3.0
Hey,
I need some good links references for Form Based Authentication in WSS 3.0.
and the next thing i want to know is that possible to do Form based authentication with my own database ?
thanks
...
1
vote
3answers
398 views
People Picker is not recognizing usernames on Server 2008 R2
In the original configuration, I have a SharePoint 2007 site hosted on Windows Server 2003/32 bit server. I configured it to use Forms Authentication with ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider and ...
0
votes
1answer
65 views
FBA in hosted SharePoint
Does anyone have details on how to create Forms based Authentication using SharePoint 2010?
I have a scenario where i want users to login and view information relating to them from a database.
This ...
4
votes
4answers
1k views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
673 views
Allowing an anonymous user to access a FBA site in SharePoint 2010
I have a new site with a custom forms membership and role provider, and I need to allow anonymous users to visit the site (i.e. to browse around but not log in). This is a new SharePoint 2010 site ...
1
vote
2answers
162 views
With FBA, why do providers need to be registered in Central Admin web.config?
I have a web application that uses forms-based authentication. As part of the process of setting this up (e.g. these instructions), I need to register the FBA membership and role providers in Central ...
5
votes
2answers
1k views
How does forms based authentication work in SharePoint 2010?
We are setting up a new extranet farm and we want to use SharePoint 2010. We have some usability issues with authentication on our old farm, so I'd like to do things right (or at least righter) on ...
1
vote
1answer
145 views
SharePoint 2010 Claims
I've got a SharePoint portal configured to use Claims based authentication. I'm able to login using this, but each time I click a link within the portal, I'm redirected to the logon page. Any clues?
2
votes
1answer
133 views
can you have multiple visitor groups, all which grant read access to the site?
I am trying to prevent members of a group from being able to see who else is in that group.
So, one idea is to have multiple groups, where each group would grant 'read' access to the site. The 'Set ...
3
votes
2answers
2k views
Log out using forms authentication in SP2010
I have configured an intranet using Claims based authentication and an extended internet site using forms based authentication in SP 2010
All is set up and working except logging out...
I have a ...
2
votes
1answer
510 views
Web service authentication with multiple authentication types
I am trying to pull data from the list.asmx web service from a console application. I am using clams based authentication, and whenever only integrated Windows Authentiation is checked everything ...
0
votes
1answer
188 views
SSP Personal Features for Everyone
How may I grant Everyone Use Personal Features access to our SSP, we are not using AD to authenticate users, so NT Authority\Authenticated Users will not work in this situation. I want to enable My ...
0
votes
2answers
816 views
SharePoint 2007 fails to redirect to login page
I have a SharePoint 2007 publishing portal that started throwing an error when user's click the Sign Out link. This started happening just this week and I can't tell what changes that have been made ...
0
votes
1answer
315 views
Forms Auth, Sharepoint Group, Form Group, Workflow Email notification
We have a publishing site using MOSS2007 that is using a Forms authentication and our own Membership and Role Provider
We want to have a workflow that sends emails to the Approvers sharepoint group ...
2
votes
1answer
824 views
using FBA can create a new account but people picker doesn't recognize it
I am using FBA on a wss 3.0 site, I can create new users in the DB by using the ASP.NET management site. The users can then log in, but receive an error: access denied message.
So, I know that the ...
3
votes
3answers
2k views
Problem uploading files to WSS 3.0 from Office 2010
hopefully someone can help me out with this one. We're using WSS 3.0 with forms based authentication and I'm not able to get it to integrate with Office client app. I'm using Office 2010 and I'm able ...
0
votes
1answer
548 views
I have a problem trying to add FBA Users or Roles to a SharePoint site
I’ve added the membership and role provider keys for an FBA database into the web.config of a standard AD authenticated SharePoint site (as per Andrew Connells article).
This should then allow me to ...
3
votes
1answer
560 views
SSL and Forms Based Authentication in WSS 3.0
I have a FBA application and we would like to use SSL with it.
By default, does setting SSL in IIS use SSL for the entire site, or just the login?
We think we'd like to use SSL for the entire visit ...
0
votes
1answer
1k views
How to update data in the user information list when using FBA
I've got to support a SharePoint web application which uses FBA with a custom membership and a custom role provider to authenticate the user against two different LDAPs. The user data are only stored ...
