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Thursday, March 21, 2013


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http://lanyrd.com/2013/sharepoint-nocode-development-by-usama/



Thanks to
Rolf Eleveld to arranging this for SharePoint Community.

SharePoint 2013 Form based authentication (FBA)

Sunday, March 10, 2013


SharePoint is the one of the best solution for sharing and managing information inside the organization. To Manage different types of User and Policies and Access rights SharePoint provides three different ways to manage User authentication. Which validate user Identity against an authentication provider. Normally we manage user with Active Directory or Database to control and manage rights and Permissions. Mostly for Public facing site and LOB which works with external users or users which are not the part of (AD DS) we use FBA to manage SharePoint Authentication.
In SharePoint 2013 we have two types of Authentication
 Claims-based Authentication.
·         Claims-based identities, a user obtains a digitally signed security token from a commonly trusted identity provider.

Important!                
·         Office Web Apps can be used only by SharePoint 2013 web applications that use claims-based authentication.

 Classic mode authentication.
  Classic mode authentication uses Windows authentication and SharePoint 2013 treats the user accounts as AD DS accounts.

There are three types of authentication method are available in SharePoint2013.

Windows authentication
   The Windows authentication type use existing Windows authentication provider (AD DS).which can use for both types of Authentication Classic and Claims-based.
   
Forms-based authentication
 
 FBA is a claims-based identity management system that is based on ASP.NET membership and role provider authentication. Forms-based authentication can be used against credentials that are stored in an authentication provider AD Ds, LDAP, SQL Server database. FBA sent User Passwords as Plaintext for web traffic should use SSL to encrypt the information’s.  

SAML token-based authentication
SAML token-based authentication in SharePoint 2013 uses the SAML 1.1 protocol and the WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile (WS-F PRP). 
Configure Forms-based authentication in SharePoint 2013.
Create SQL Server database to Store User Information. Create Users and Roles.
Modified and configure the Central Administration Web.Config file.
Modified and configure the Security Token Service Web.Config file.
Create new Web Application with form base Auth.
Modified and configure the new web application Web.Config file.

Don’t forget to take backup of all Web.Config Files before Modifying.
To configure FBA for SharePoint 2013 Site. We have to perform following steps.


1.     Create Sql Server Database by using Asp.net 2.0 utility called aspnet_regsql.exe. By using PowerShell Command.  


2.     Open Windows Power Shell and Past following Command. It will open one wizard. Complete that with all default values. And Confirm that aspnet database has been created successfully.





3.      To confirm database is create successfully in SQL Server. Open SQL SERVER management studio and open the same instance of SQL server which you selected in wizard and check database named aspnetdb has been created. 









4.     Now Open Visual Studio and add one Blank web Application to your solution.




5.     Open web.config file and create Connections with Same Database that you created in previous step under the   configuration Tag.


6.       Add membership and Role Manager Provider under the <system.web> Tag.
 


7.     Then Run Asp.net Site Configuration settings from Visual Studio 2013 and Create two user and one Role.





8.     To create users and Roles Click on Security Tab in Asp.net Site Configuration in Site create role administrator and users.



9.     Now we have to modify the Security Token Service (STS ) in IIS under the “SharePoint Web Service” web Application. In order to do that open IIS and locate the Security Token Service and right click and click on explorer and Open Web.config file in Visual Studio 2012.
   


10.    Find configuration and past above the tag ConnectionString from Previous Web asp.net Application. 
11.   Past RoleManager and membership under the system.web  from Previous Web asp.net Application. 




12.   Go back to IIS and Open the Central Administration and navigate Web.config file and open in Visual Studio.  

13.   File PeoplePickerWildcards and add one more key for our MembershipProvider and save.
14.   Then Search membership Override with our configuration from Previous Web asp.net Application.
15.   Then Add ConnectionString in the end of Web.config File.


        


16.   Create new Web Application from CA. Under Application Management set check true “Enable Forms Based Authentication (FBA)”, Allow Anonymous True, Site name : SharePointFBASite(Optional).



17.   Then Define Role and Membership Provider name and save with basic settings and Save.




18.   Create Root SiteCollection by Using following PowerShell command.




19.   Open IIS and Navigate the new root site  web.config  File and open in Visual Studio.


20.   Search PeoplePickerWildcards  Tag in Web.Config file and add another key for you membership Provider called “SharePoint2013AspNetMembershipProvider”.



21.   Open FBA Site in Brower and navigate to Site Settings > click on site Permissions Site Collection Administrators and type that user that you created in start from .net utility. In my  case this is usama and admin then click on Ok.







22.   Sign-out from site and Re-login by using farm base Auth and use FBA User name and Password in my case my username is usama.



Note
Always remember that Take backups of all config files before changing them and make sure that you have administrative and SharePoint should have access to asp.net membership database. 

Reference 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806890.aspx
http://sharepoint2013fba.codeplex.com/