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.
7
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2answers
530 views
How can I Move Windows User Profiles to FBA User Profiles?
I'm working with an extranet that had been configured to use Windows Integrated Authentication in SharePoint 2010. I'd like to move it to FBA authentication, but I'm hung up on the User Profiles.
...
6
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2answers
291 views
SharePoint 2013 Authentication model
I am new to SharePoint and have few questions regarding the authentication.
We are using SP 2013 as extranet and we have different sites for different partners. Total number of users will be less ...
6
votes
1answer
883 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. ...
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 ...
5
votes
6answers
524 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: ...
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 ...
5
votes
2answers
528 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 ...
5
votes
1answer
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, ...
4
votes
6answers
441 views
Does the level of effort justify using SharePoint 2010 as a public facing webportal?
I have a predicament in a project I'm currently involved in. Due to the nature of the project and the customer, I will not be able to disclose any detailed information regarding the actual project, ...
4
votes
2answers
896 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 ...
4
votes
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 ...
4
votes
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/'.
...
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 ...
4
votes
0answers
396 views
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, ...
3
votes
2answers
2k 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 ...
3
votes
3answers
180 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 ...
3
votes
1answer
140 views
Sign off of Windows with out of box LDAP provider on 2013 causes encodedValue error
I've hit upon yet another encodedValue error scenario:
Exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' was thrown. Parameter name: encodedValue at
...
3
votes
2answers
783 views
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 ...
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 ...
3
votes
3answers
2k views
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, ...
3
votes
2answers
739 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 ...
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 ...
3
votes
1answer
559 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 ...
3
votes
1answer
674 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 ...
3
votes
2answers
538 views
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.
...
3
votes
1answer
515 views
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. ...
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 ...
3
votes
1answer
52 views
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 ...
3
votes
3answers
1k views
Sharepoint 2010 windows authentication via login form (2 textboxes for username and password)
are there anyways to use a login form with a textbox for username and another one for password to authenticate a user with windows authentication ?
like the image below, i want to use a login form ...
2
votes
2answers
298 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.
2
votes
3answers
419 views
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
94 views
Give anonymous users access to only one page on SharePoint Site
I only want anonymous users to access one page on my entire site collection, that is the Login page. All other pages should not be accessible.
I tried going to manage permissions for the page, and ...
2
votes
2answers
2k views
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 ...
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
508 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 ...
2
votes
1answer
34 views
Unauthorized access to User Profile Service web service
I have two zones for my SP2010 site collection: default (uses Win Auth- claims) and internet (uses FBA to an AD user store). I have a WP which would call the User Profile Web Service and get some ...
2
votes
1answer
1k views
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 ...
2
votes
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
1k views
Create a sharepoint registration page for external users
I want to make a sharepoint site where everyone has access to the login page. On the login page, there should be a link to a registration page where new users can register. The emailadress provided ...
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
270 views
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
189 views
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 - ...
2
votes
1answer
497 views
FBA and People Picker Issue on NTLM Web App Zone
SCENARIO
I correctly set up FBA on SharePoint 2010 following these tutorials (among others):
...
2
votes
1answer
511 views
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
230 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 ...
2
votes
2answers
347 views
Excluding FBA users from people search
I've got a mixed environment with both AD users as well as FBA users. The FBA users are stored in a seperate ASP.NET membership database.
Now when I use search, both AD and FBA users show up. I'd ...
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
742 views
Content Type, document template and forms authentication
I have a custom content type defined, with a document template, similar to below:
<ContentType
ID="0x010100120A74C7DFDA4C6fA8C3E519B41F421E"
Name="My Excel Library"
Group="My ...
2
votes
4answers
1k views
'Unknown error' on login with default FBA setup, an iisreset fixes for ~24hr
I have a basic WSS 3.0 site set up with an ASP.NET membership database and default forms login. There is no custom code or any customization on the entire site.
When I try to log in, I get 'unknown ...
2
votes
2answers
1k views
How do I allow users to change their password (ASP.NET membership)
Title says it all. I have an ASP.Net membership database (extranet) site set up, but users have no way to change thier passwords.
