Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint: Web Administration Tool
Posted by: Jan Tielens Bloggings [MVP],
on 02 Feb 2007 |
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One of the big new things (among tons of others of course) in SharePoint 2007 (both WSS v3 and MOSS 2007) is the fact that SharePoint now uses the authentication provider model of ASP.NET 2.0. This means that you have store the user accounts and passwords in another data source than Active Directory (the only option in SharePoint 2003), for example a SQL Server database. The good news is that SharePoint is relying on ASP.NET 2.0 for this, so if you know how to enable Forms Based Authentication...