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Installing and Configuring the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack

Configure SharePoint 2010 to use Forms Based Authentication

Before you can use the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack, SharePoint must be configured to use Forms Based Authentication:
http://donalconlon.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/configuring-forms-base-authentication-for-sharepoint-2010-using-iis7/

Install (or upgrade) the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack

Download and unzip Sharepoint2010FBAPack.X.X.X.zip to the SharePoint server.
Open PowerShell and navigate to the folder the files were unzipped to.
Run the following command:
.\deploy [Site Collection URL]
e.g. .\deploy http://demo2010a:13824/
The FBA Pack will be deployed to SharePoint and activated on the specified site collection. If the site collection url is omitted, you will need to manually activate the 'Forms Based Authentication Management' feature in each site collection you wish to use it.
To uninstall run:
.\undeploy [Site Collection URL]

Notes:

Ensure that the SharePoint 2010 Administration service is running prior to running the deployment scripts, or the deployment will fail.
Depending on your PowerShell security settings, it may prevent you from running the deployment scripts because they are not signed. To change the setting to allow unsigned scripts to run, run the following command:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Upgrading the FBA Pack will clear the Membership Review List. Please approve any pending membership requests before performing an upgrade.

Configure the FBA Pack

The configuration and management pages can be opened from the Site Settings page:

Select ‘FBA Site Configuration’ to open the configuration page:

Enable Roles: Allows users to be assigned Membership Roles instead of SharePoint Groups on the User Management page.
Review Membership Requests: Specifies whether new users requests should be automatically granted, or reviewed by an administrator.
Membership Review Site URLs: URLs for pages that can be used in the email templates.
Membership Email XSLT: The location of the email templates to use.

Note that these items can only been seen and used by the site collection administrators.

Add the web parts to pages

There are three highly customizable web parts available: Membership Request, Change Password and Password Recovery. They must be manually added to the page you’d like to use them on:

Change Password:

Membership Request:

Password Recovery:

Changing your Password

A Change Password item has been added to the user menu that will bring the user to a Change Password page:

Reviewing Membership Requests

If “Review Membership Requests” was selected on the configuration page, new registered users will appear in the Membership Request Management page before being enabled on the site. Each user can be edited, and their status changed to either Approved or Rejected. The user will be sent an email with the new status of their account request.

Managing Users

Users can be created, deleted and edited from the FBA User Management page:

Managing Roles

Roles can be created and deleted from the FBA Roles Management page:

IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION - PLEASE ASK IT IN THE DISCUSSION FORUM. COMMENTS BELOW ARE NOT READ ON A REGULAR BASIS.

New Comment on "Documentation"

hsiungst — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:06:02 GMT

Hi, after a logon is successful - is there a way to redirect user to a custom page?

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ccoulson — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:34:16 GMT

Installing and Configuring the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack

Configure SharePoint 2010 to use Forms Based Authentication

Install (or upgrade) the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack

Download and unzip Sharepoint2010FBAPack.X.X.X.zip to the SharePoint server.
Open PowerShell and navigate to the folder the files were unzipped to.
Run the following command:
.\deploy [Site Collection URL]
e.g. .\deploy http://demo2010a:13824/
The FBA Pack will be deployed to SharePoint and activated on the specified site collection. If the site collection url is omitted, you will need to manually activate the 'Forms Based Authentication Management' feature in each site collection you wish to use it.
To uninstall run:
.\undeploy [Site Collection URL]

Notes:

Ensure that the SharePoint 2010 Administration service is running prior to running the deployment scripts, or the deployment will fail.

Depending on your PowerShell security settings, it may prevent you from running the deployment scripts because they are not signed. To change the setting to allow unsigned scripts to run, run the following command:
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Configure the FBA Pack

Note that these items can only been seen and used by the site collection administrators.

Add the web parts to pages

Changing your Password

A Change Password item has been added to the user menu that will bring the user to a Change Password page:

Reviewing Membership Requests

Managing Users

Users can be created, deleted and edited from the FBA User Management page:

Managing Roles

Roles can be created and deleted from the FBA Roles Management page:

IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION - PLEASE ASK IT IN THE DISCUSSION FORUM. COMMENTS BELOW ARE NOT READ ON A REGULAR BASIS.

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ccoulson — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:33:11 GMT

Installing and Configuring the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack

Configure SharePoint 2010 to use Forms Based Authentication

Install (or upgrade) the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack

Download and unzip Sharepoint2010FBAPack.X.X.X.zip to the SharePoint server.
Open PowerShell and navigate to the folder the files were unzipped to.
Run the following command:
.\deploy [Site Collection URL]
e.g. .\deploy http://demo2010a:13824/
The FBA Pack will be deployed to SharePoint and activated on the specified site collection. If the site collection url is omitted, you will need to manually activate the 'Forms Based Authentication Management' feature in each site collection you wish to use it.
To uninstall run:
.\undeploy [Site Collection URL]

Notes:

Ensure that the SharePoint 2010 Administration service is running prior to running the deployment scripts, or the deployment will fail.

Configure the FBA Pack

Note that these items can only been seen and used by the site collection administrators.

Add the web parts to pages

Changing your Password

A Change Password item has been added to the user menu that will bring the user to a Change Password page:

Reviewing Membership Requests

Managing Users

Users can be created, deleted and edited from the FBA User Management page:

Managing Roles

Roles can be created and deleted from the FBA Roles Management page:

IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION - PLEASE ASK IT IN THE DISCUSSION FORUM. COMMENTS IN THE DOCUMENTATION ARE NOT READ ON A REGULAR BASIS.

New Comment on "Documentation"

rubrodmon — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:10:09 GMT

Hello, we have all installed correctly but we have a small problem. When a new user is registered we can see it in Review Membership Request. We change his status but anyone email is sent to him. Can you give me any clue to resolve this problem? Thank you very much

New Comment on "Documentation"

rubrodmon — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:03:53 GMT

Hello, we have all installed correctly but we have a small problem. When a new user is registered we can see it in Review Membership Request. We change his status but none email is sent to him. Can you give me any clue to resolve this problem? Thank you very much

New Comment on "Documentation"

elforey — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:07:44 GMT

¡¡¡¡Gracias Totales!!!! ....

New Comment on "Documentation"

Voldemaring — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:41:44 GMT

I had the "A Membership Provider has not been configured correctly. Check the web.config setttings for this web application" as well. <b>Turned out that the user of the AppPool didn't have rights on the membership database.</b>

New Comment on "Documentation"

jainamit — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:37:08 GMT

Read how to setup FBA <a href="http://csharpdotnetfreak.blogspot.com/2012/08/sharepoint2010-forms-based-authentication-fba-claims.html">http://csharpdotnetfreak.blogspot.com/2012/08/sharepoint2010-forms-based-authentication-fba-claims.html</a>

New Comment on "Documentation"

jainamit — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:32:41 GMT

Nice post also read how to setup FBA using IIS http://csharpdotnetfreak.blogspot.com/2012/08/sharepoint2010-forms-based-authentication-fba-claims.html

New Comment on "Documentation"

jainamit — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:31:31 GMT

Read how to setup FBA using IIS http://csharpdotnetfreak.blogspot.com/2012/08/sharepoint2010-forms-based-authentication-fba-claims.html

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ccoulson — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:02:08 GMT

Installing and Configuring the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack

Configure SharePoint 2010 to use Forms Based Authentication

Install (or upgrade) the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack

Download and unzip Sharepoint2010FBAPack.X.X.X.zip to the SharePoint server.
Open PowerShell and navigate to the folder the files were unzipped to.
Run the following command:
.\deploy [Site Collection URL]
e.g. .\deploy http://demo2010a:13824/
The FBA Pack will be deployed to SharePoint and activated on the specified site collection. If the site collection url is omitted, you will need to manually activate the 'Forms Based Authentication Management' feature in each site collection you wish to use it.
To uninstall run:
.\undeploy [Site Collection URL]

Notes:

Ensure that the SharePoint 2010 Administration service is running prior to running the deployment scripts, or the deployment will fail.

Configure the FBA Pack

Note that these items can only been seen and used by the site collection administrators.

Add the web parts to pages

Changing your Password

A Change Password item has been added to the user menu that will bring the user to a Change Password page:

Reviewing Membership Requests

Managing Users

Users can be created, deleted and edited from the FBA User Management page:

Managing Roles

Roles can be created and deleted from the FBA Roles Management page:

Updated Wiki: Version History

ccoulson — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:58:12 GMT

1.3.1

Fixed deployment issue where assembly was not loaded in some cases, so feature was not being enabled properly.

1.3.0

Added a password reset page that allows the user to either automatically reset a password or set a specific password for the user.
Search and page settings are now saved on the User Management page as you edit/create new users. Thanks to Bernd @ Solvion for providing this.
The email templates can now be edited directly from the FBA Site Configuration page. This also removes the requirement of trusting the root certificate in an SSL environment.
The deployment scripts no longer require a specific site to be specified to enable the feature on.
Updated Change Password menu to use the page specified in the FBA Site Configuration page. Thanks to Bernd @ Solvion for providing this.
Added the version number to the FBA Site Configuration page.
Changed the source control from TFS to Mercurial.

Many bug fixes:
- Issue# 701, 702 - Updated to ensure that the user was successfully created before sending the membership pending email. Also created all accounts as disabled, and only enable them when they are approved - this prevents users from resetting their password and logging in.
- Issue# 797 - Fixed password recovery web part to always send the templated email even if the mailsettings are set in the web.config
- Issue# 683 - Updated the Password recovery web part to run with elevated permissions when sending the email
- Issue# 689 - Fixed missing/invalid resource keys
- Issue# 689 - Updated the build to create en-US resource files from the default resource files - to get rid of SharePoint warnings that the files don't exist. Also updated the build to synchronize new additions to the default resource files to their language specific counterparts.
- Item# 772 - Fixed to programmatically add the event receiver to the membership review list, as the declarative definition was causing the event receiver to be attached to all lists.
- Issue# 802 - Fixed duplicate FBA Menu ID's
- Issue# 804 - Updated unknown error message to be more specific
- Issue# 675 - Relaxed email validation on the New User/Edit User pages
- Issue# 666 - Turned off autocomplete on the User Management new user page
- Issue# 651 - Fixed duplicate content in the the resource file
- Issue# 650 - Updated the cancel buttons on MembershipRequest and ChangePassword to not cause validation.
- Issue# 624 - Updated the OK button on the site configuration page to return the user to the settings page.

1.2.0

Web parts are now fully customizable via html templates (Issue #323)
FBA Pack is now completely localizable using resource files. Thank you David Chen for submitting the code as well as Chinese translations of the FBA Pack!
The membership request web part now gives the option of having the user enter the password and removing the captcha (Issue # 447)
The FBA Pack will now work in a zone that does not have FBA enabled (Another zone must have FBA enabled, and the zone must contain the membership/role web.config entries)
Added Last Login Date to the User Management screen (Issue #399)
Users can now be added to SharePoint from the User Management page by adding them to a group.
Fixed the breadcrumbs on the Site Settings pages
Fixed bugs relating to groups from other sites as well as missing groups. Cleaned up User Information List lookup. Thank you Sigan for submitting the fixes! (Issues #420,421,422)
The web parts now display errors more clearly if they occur or if FBA has not been properly configured (Issue #380)
Many other bug fixes

1.1.0

Added search to User Management page (Issue #314)
Adjusted the Password Recovery web part to allow the user to be looked up by email address (Issue #319)
Added the ability to unlock a locked user account from the User Management page (Issue #315)
Fixed Create/Edit user page so that errors display on the page instead of showing the SharePoint 2010 error page (Issue # 318)
Adjusted Captcha to be easier to read (Issue #367)
Fixed logging and added diagnostics service

1.0.3

Fixed User Management screen when "RequiresQuestionAndAnswer" set to true
Reply to Email Address can now be customized
User Management page now only displays users that reside in the membership database
Web parts have been changed to inherit from System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart, so that they will display on anonymous application pages

1.0.2

Modified to work properly with child sites and sites where the site collection is not in the root of the web application (Thanks daford!)
Fixed to work on web apps where the default zone is not configured for FBA
Fixed the Membership Request web part to work for anonymous users
Fixed links in Password Recovery email
Synchronized password recovery and new user password to a minimum 14 chars
Set default link on Change Password web part continue button
Fixed URL Problems with Application Pages (due to url rewriting Request.URL does not return actual url)

1.0.1

Updated deployment scripts to delete an aborted Timer Job if one exists.

1.0.0

Initial Release

Updated Wiki: Version History

ccoulson — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:57:40 GMT

1.3.1

Fixed deployment issue where assembly was not loaded in some cases, so feature was not being enabled properly.

1.3.0

Added a password reset page that allows the user to either automatically reset a password or set a specific password for the user.
Search and page settings are now saved on the User Management page as you edit/create new users. Thanks to Bernd @ Solvion for providing this.
The email templates can now be edited directly from the FBA Site Configuration page. This also removes the requirement of trusting the root certificate in an SSL environment.
The deployment scripts no longer require a specific site to be specified to enable the feature on.
Updated Change Password menu to use the page specified in the FBA Site Configuration page. Thanks to Bernd @ Solvion for providing this.
Added the version number to the FBA Site Configuration page.
Changed the source control from TFS to Mercurial.

Many bug fixes:
- Issue# 701, 702 - Updated to ensure that the user was successfully created before sending the membership pending email. Also created all accounts as disabled, and only enable them when they are approved - this prevents users from resetting their password and logging in.
- Issue# 797 - Fixed password recovery web part to always send the templated email even if the mailsettings are set in the web.config
- Issue# 683 - Updated the Password recovery web part to run with elevated permissions when sending the email
- Issue# 689 - Fixed missing/invalid resource keys
- Issue# 689 - Updated the build to create en-US resource files from the default resource files - to get rid of SharePoint warnings that the files don't exist. Also updated the build to synchronize new additions to the default resource files to their language specific counterparts.
- Item# 772 - Fixed to programmatically add the event receiver to the membership review list, as the declarative definition was causing the event receiver to be attached to all lists.
- Issue# 802 - Fixed duplicate FBA Menu ID's
- Issue# 804 - Updated unknown error message to be more specific
- Issue# 675 - Relaxed email validation on the New User/Edit User pages
- Issue# 666 - Turned off autocomplete on the User Management new user page
- Issue# 651 - Fixed duplicate content in the the resource file
- Issue# 650 - Updated the cancel buttons on MembershipRequest and ChangePassword to not cause validation.
- Issue# 624 - Updated the OK button on the site configuration page to return the user to the settings page.

1.2.0

Web parts are now fully customizable via html templates (Issue #323)
FBA Pack is now completely localizable using resource files. Thank you David Chen for submitting the code as well as Chinese translations of the FBA Pack!
The membership request web part now gives the option of having the user enter the password and removing the captcha (Issue # 447)
The FBA Pack will now work in a zone that does not have FBA enabled (Another zone must have FBA enabled, and the zone must contain the membership/role web.config entries)
Added Last Login Date to the User Management screen (Issue #399)
Users can now be added to SharePoint from the User Management page by adding them to a group.
Fixed the breadcrumbs on the Site Settings pages
Fixed bugs relating to groups from other sites as well as missing groups. Cleaned up User Information List lookup. Thank you Sigan for submitting the fixes! (Issues #420,421,422)
The web parts now display errors more clearly if they occur or if FBA has not been properly configured (Issue #380)
Many other bug fixes

1.1..0

Added search to User Management page (Issue #314)
Adjusted the Password Recovery web part to allow the user to be looked up by email address (Issue #319)
Added the ability to unlock a locked user account from the User Management page (Issue #315)
Fixed Create/Edit user page so that errors display on the page instead of showing the SharePoint 2010 error page (Issue # 318)
Adjusted Captcha to be easier to read (Issue #367)
Fixed logging and added diagnostics service

1.0.3

Fixed User Management screen when "RequiresQuestionAndAnswer" set to true
Reply to Email Address can now be customized
User Management page now only displays users that reside in the membership database
Web parts have been changed to inherit from System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart, so that they will display on anonymous application pages

1.0.2

Modified to work properly with child sites and sites where the site collection is not in the root of the web application (Thanks daford!)
Fixed to work on web apps where the default zone is not configured for FBA
Fixed the Membership Request web part to work for anonymous users
Fixed links in Password Recovery email
Synchronized password recovery and new user password to a minimum 14 chars
Set default link on Change Password web part continue button
Fixed URL Problems with Application Pages (due to url rewriting Request.URL does not return actual url)

1.0.1

Updated deployment scripts to delete an aborted Timer Job if one exists.

1.0.0

Initial Release

Updated Wiki: Version History

ccoulson — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:54:01 GMT

1.3.0

Added a password reset page that allows the user to either automatically reset a password or set a specific password for the user.
Search and page settings are now saved on the User Management page as you edit/create new users. Thanks to Bernd @ Solvion for providing this.
The email templates can now be edited directly from the FBA Site Configuration page. This also removes the requirement of trusting the root certificate in an SSL environment.
The deployment scripts no longer require a specific site to be specified to enable the feature on.
Updated Change Password menu to use the page specified in the FBA Site Configuration page. Thanks to Bernd @ Solvion for providing this.
Added the version number to the FBA Site Configuration page.
Changed the source control from TFS to Mercurial.

Many bug fixes:
- Issue# 701, 702 - Updated to ensure that the user was successfully created before sending the membership pending email. Also created all accounts as disabled, and only enable them when they are approved - this prevents users from resetting their password and logging in.
- Issue# 797 - Fixed password recovery web part to always send the templated email even if the mailsettings are set in the web.config
- Issue# 683 - Updated the Password recovery web part to run with elevated permissions when sending the email
- Issue# 689 - Fixed missing/invalid resource keys
- Issue# 689 - Updated the build to create en-US resource files from the default resource files - to get rid of SharePoint warnings that the files don't exist. Also updated the build to synchronize new additions to the default resource files to their language specific counterparts.
- Item# 772 - Fixed to programmatically add the event receiver to the membership review list, as the declarative definition was causing the event receiver to be attached to all lists.
- Issue# 802 - Fixed duplicate FBA Menu ID's
- Issue# 804 - Updated unknown error message to be more specific
- Issue# 675 - Relaxed email validation on the New User/Edit User pages
- Issue# 666 - Turned off autocomplete on the User Management new user page
- Issue# 651 - Fixed duplicate content in the the resource file
- Issue# 650 - Updated the cancel buttons on MembershipRequest and ChangePassword to not cause validation.
- Issue# 624 - Updated the OK button on the site configuration page to return the user to the settings page.

1.2.0

Web parts are now fully customizable via html templates (Issue #323)
FBA Pack is now completely localizable using resource files. Thank you David Chen for submitting the code as well as Chinese translations of the FBA Pack!
The membership request web part now gives the option of having the user enter the password and removing the captcha (Issue # 447)
The FBA Pack will now work in a zone that does not have FBA enabled (Another zone must have FBA enabled, and the zone must contain the membership/role web.config entries)
Added Last Login Date to the User Management screen (Issue #399)
Users can now be added to SharePoint from the User Management page by adding them to a group.
Fixed the breadcrumbs on the Site Settings pages
Fixed bugs relating to groups from other sites as well as missing groups. Cleaned up User Information List lookup. Thank you Sigan for submitting the fixes! (Issues #420,421,422)
The web parts now display errors more clearly if they occur or if FBA has not been properly configured (Issue #380)
Many other bug fixes

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ccoulson — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:53:14 GMT

Installing and Configuring the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack

Configure SharePoint 2010 to use Forms Based Authentication

Install the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack

Download and unzip Sharepoint2010FBAPack.zip to the SharePoint server.
Open PowerShell and navigate to the folder the files were unzipped to.
Run the following command:
.\deploy [Site Collection URL]
e.g. .\deploy http://demo2010a:13824/
The FBA Pack will be deployed to SharePoint and activated on the specified site collection. If the site collection url is omitted, you will need to manually activate the 'Forms Based Authentication Management' feature in each site collection you wish to use it.
To uninstall run:
.\undeploy [Site Collection URL]

Notes:

Ensure that the SharePoint 2010 Administration service is running prior to running the deployment scripts, or the deployment will fail.

Configure the FBA Pack

Note that these items can only been seen and used by the site collection administrators.

Add the web parts to pages

Changing your Password

A Change Password item has been added to the user menu that will bring the user to a Change Password page:

Reviewing Membership Requests

Managing Users

Users can be created, deleted and edited from the FBA User Management page:

Managing Roles

Roles can be created and deleted from the FBA Roles Management page:

Updated Wiki: Version History

ccoulson — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:51:35 GMT

1.3.0

Added a password reset page that allows the user to either automatically reset a password or set a specific password for the user.
Search and page settings are now saved on the User Management page as you edit/create new users. Thanks to Bernd @ Solvion for providing this.
The email templates can now be edited directly from the FBA Site Configuration page. This also removes the requirement of trusting the root certificate in an SSL environment.
The deployment scripts no longer require a specific site to be specified to enable the feature on.
Updated Change Password menu to use the page specified in the FBA Site Configuration page. Thanks to Bernd @ Solvion for providing this.
Added the version number to the FBA Site Configuration page.
Changed the source control from TFS to Mercurial.

Many bug fixes:
- Issue# 701, 702 - Updated to ensure that the user was successfully created before sending the membership pending email. Also created all accounts as disabled, and only enable them when they are approved - this prevents users from resetting their password and logging in.
- Issue# 797 - Fixed password recovery web part to always send the templated email even if the mailsettings are set in the web.config
- Issue# 683 - Updated the Password recovery web part to run with elevated permissions when sending the email
- Issue# 689 - Fixed missing/invalid resource keys
- Issue# 689 - Updated the build to create en-US resource files from the default resource files - to get rid of SharePoint warnings that the files don't exist. Also updated the build to synchronize new additions to the default resource files to their language specific counterparts.
- Item# 772 - Fixed to programmatically add the event receiver to the membership review list, as the declarative definition was causing the event receiver to be attached to all lists.
- Issue# 802 - Fixed duplicate FBA Menu ID's
- Issue# 804 - Updated unknown error message to be more specific
- Issue# 675 - Relaxed email validation on the New User/Edit User pages
- Issue# 666 - Turned off autocomplete on the User Management new user page
- Issue# 651 - Fixed duplicate content in the the resource file
- Issue# 650 - Updated the cancel buttons on MembershipRequest and ChangePassword to not cause validation.
- Issue# 624 - Updated the OK button on the site configuration page to return the user to the settings page.

Updated Wiki: Localizing the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack

ccoulson — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:51:52 GMT

Localizing the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack

All of the text in the FBA Pack has been moved to resource files to allow it to be easily translated to multiple languages. Currently it has language support for English and Chinese. If you are bilingual and can help us translate the FBA Pack, your help would be greatly appreciated. Please only submit true translations - we could easily translate everything with Google Translate if we wanted to.

To translate the FBA Pack, download the resource files from the Downloads page. The zip file will contain several resource files (.resx) and some xslt files for the default emails. Please translate all of the files in the zip file, rezip it and upload it as an attachment to an issue on the Create Issue page. It will be included in the following release.

Thank you to everybody who submits translations!

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ccoulson — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:17:01 GMT