I have a site I am configuring to support forms based authentication in SharePoint. I am stuck because I get a 401.5 error (unauthorized) when the login page is displayed. Any tips for getting started in the debugging process? I already know that 401.5 means an ISAPI Filter has told IIS the request is not … Read more
I have an existing FBA database of ~2000 users for one of my clients in WSS 3.0. I have successfully upgraded their WSS site collection (in a test environment) to SharePoint 2010. I have also configured the 2010 installation to use FBA (through Claims Based Authentication) and verified that the users can be seen from … Read more
When trying to extend an existing SharePoint 2010 web application, I get an error. The Web App is running Claims Authentication. I disabled NTLM Auth on the Default Zone – we want the public (default) zone to be Claims / FBA only. We need to expand the web app to make a new zone to … Read more
We have a custom MembershipProvider implementation using form-based authentication (FBA) under Sharepoint 2007. I’ve searched high and low on Google, but only found: Active directory and FBA implementations to allow users to change their own password Active directory instructions (including video!) for administrators to change other users’ passwords Have we missed an option to enable … Read more
I set up a Sharepoint (WSS) site with forms-based authentication (FBA) via ASP.Net membership provider – I can change user’s passwords with the ASP.Net config tool. But I want them to be able to change their own password. Should be something obvious that I’m just not seeing, right? Answer You want the External Collaboration Toolkit … Read more
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 functionality, but this has caused a side effect with Word / Excel files when opened from the site using Office 2007 / … Read more
We have an existing Office SharePoint 2007 server farm doing out of the box NTLM integrated authentication. Our web developer would like a landing page for external users using forms based authentication. If we add FBA with the active directory provider then it appears we have to create duplicate user records inside of sharepoint (one … Read more
