Forms Base Authentication Tools and Utils for SharePoint 2007

Thanks Stacy! I was about to start creating this functionality msyelf when I stumbled upon this project. I just wanted to point out a few things that I found confusing.

1. After activating and deploying the solution, the feature needs to be activated at the site level. It seemed to me like it should have been at the site collection level rather than at the site level.
2. In order to activate the feature, you need to be in Windows Authentication mode. When I tried activating the feature in FBA mode as a site collection administrator, I received Access Denied errors.

Thanks again!

Hello Stacy,
Thank you for your component. I purpose it in my article on FBA and NTLM Authentication :
- http://www.asp-php.net/tutorial/asp.net/sharepoint-double-authentication.php
It's the component i imagine to use in the FBA case.
Have a good day.
Romelard Fabrice [MVP]

Thank you Stacy. It's a great feature! When do you expect the full release to be out?

Absolutely love it! Thanks heaps Stacy!

Hi guys, If you have trouble activating the feature through the GUI (i.e. you get an error when you click on activate), try activating via command line, This seems to work on most occasions though I've yet to understand why.

Hi Stacy, my deployment was fine and I can create users and roles, but the UserEdit.aspx is throwing the following:

10/03/2007 11:45:11.02 w3wp.exe (0x1A70) 0x1914 Windows SharePoint Services General 8dzz High Exception Type: System.Web.HttpCompileException Exception Message: c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\FBA\MANAGEMENT\UserEdit.aspx(138): error CS0201: Only assignment, call, increment, decrement, and new object expressions can be used as a statement

The instruction causing this is

user.Email;

It seems some operation is missing... anyway great job! Greetings.

Hi enricc, seems to work if you comment out the line of code. Good luck!

I guess this is common knowledge, but for all those that are scratching there head on how to install this.
Download the Released files to your sharepoint server in the same folder
open up Deploy.cmd in a text editor
change the "http://aspnet" entires to the desired sharepoint

remove "bin\" from the following line:
sitestsadm -o addsolution -filename bin\FBAManagement.wsp

Save Deploy.cmd
Run Deploy.cmd (better if you execute it from the command line)

Note: stsadm should be in the environment variable path.

Documentation seems to be lacking here, so in case you are as confused as I was...if you want to enhance this, it is known as a SharePoint Feature. Ted Pattison has a good article about it at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466224.aspx. The article will explain why the solution is structured the way it is and how to deploy any changes you make to the solution.

I added this FBA to my sharepoint site and features and the solution was deployed successfully. However, when I go into site settings and click on Manage FBA Users or Roles I get an unknown error page. Everything said it installed correctly but when I try and click on the links in site settings I get an error page. Does anybody have any idea what the problem is. Am I missing something.

hello, i need some help.
in the membership request webpart i need to change the "Sign up for your new account" to other text, but i can't find this text.
were i can find this text, someone knows?
thanks

About UserEdit.aspx. I've changed web.config property <identity impersonate="false" /> and it began work.

Does anyone else get the "Role manager is not enabled." every time I try and do anything that hits any of the role stuff.

I've got the role manager set in my web.config.

I would like to remove this solution (and reinstall it again) but I keep getting errors:
A deployment or retraction is already under way for the solution "fbamanagement.
wsp", and only one deployment or retraction at a time is supported.

what is the right way?

The deploy.cmd file makes references to features that I don't think exists: FBAConfigurationManagement and FBAUserRoleManagement which I suppose is a leftover from some test.
That line should read more like: stsadm -o activatefeature -name FBAManagement -url http://
right?

Please change from stsadm -o addsolution -filename bin\FBAManagement.wsp to stsadm -o addsolution -filename FBAManagement.wsp

INSTALL INTRUCTIONS FOR NEWBIE'S
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Hey, I just thought I would share my installation with people who are new to this..
1, Create a folder named c:\fba on the moss server and create a sub-folder called bin in there (c:\fba\bin)
2, Put deploy.cmd & fbamanagement.wsp files in c:\fba, copy fbamanagement.wsp to c:\fba and also copy fbamanagement.wsp into C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN
3, Edit deploy.cmd and where it has http://aspnet change this to the site name of your moss server such as http://moss-server-name
4, From the command prompt, Run c:\fba\deploy.cmd
5, run IISRESET

I set this up on a moss enterprise server with dual authentication providers (windows authentication & forms authentication with anonymous access) and I added the sql admin user as a site collection administrator. After this, it showed the FBA user management and FBA role management in the sharepoint site settings.

I hope this helps. and Thanks to Stacy for providing a great tool! ;)