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Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010

24 Apr

The FBA in SharePoint 2010 is basically the same process as you should configure FBA in SharePoint 2007…

This post assumes you have already created your Content Website.

These are the screenshots (ordered from left to right):

After you completed screenshot 1-4, change Web.Config of your content website to be able to login.
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In order to be able to add a collection administrator for your application (Screenshot 6) using FBA you need to update the web.config of your Central Administration website. If it still doesn’t find your user, you should check the eventviewer and your database permissions (make sure SharePoint can access the specified Forms Authentication tables.


  

		  
	  
  
  

		  
	  
  

  
  
  
  

The only thing that is different from your content website web.config change is:

That should make it work!