Contents tagged with SharePoint 2007
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CKS:Internet/Extranet Edition - SharePoint 2007 Forms Based Authentication Solution Released
I'm very happy to announce that our first pre-Beta release of the SharePoint Forms Based Authentication features that the Community Kit for SharePoint Internet/Extranet edition has been working on is available for download on CodePlex. This solution builds on many of the things I created for the version on my website but adds significant improvents in management of users and roles. This solution also gives administrators the ability to approve/deny membership before the user is added to the MembershipProvider database. We still have more to do but we wanted to get this work out into the hands of the public so we can get any feedback you might have as early as possible.
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SharePoint/MOSS 2007 Forms Based Authentication Login/Registration Web Parts Update
I've been very pleasantly surprised with the number of people downloading the forms based authentication web parts I created. I hope you find the code valuable. I've also received via the comments section several questions about implementing one or more aspects of the solution. I haven't had time to answer many of these lately and so I thought my loyal readership (up to 3 now!) deserved to know why.
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SharePoint/MOSS 2007 Forms Based Authentication Login/Registration Web Part
SharePoint 2007 and MOSS 2007 are built on ASP.Net 2.0 which means they can leverage many of the same features of ASP.Net 2.0 including the AspNetSqlMembershipProvider for use with Forms Based Authentication. While the ability to use the SQL based authentication exists in SharePoint, the other features like user registration and password recovery are not available. So having some time on my hands I decided to create a custom web part for FBA sites to allow users to login, register, and recover their password.
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Creating a Custom SharePoint 2007 Portal Site Definition using the PortalProvisioningProvider Class
Creating a set of sites and subsites for multiple teams by creating each site one at a time can be a bit of a drag and a definite administrative drain. What would be nice is to be able to specify a set of sites in a predefined heirarchy that the can be used as a single reusable template. This set of sites is what SharePoint 2007 calls a "portal" (The most overused word in the SharePoint world). SharePoint 2007 gives you the ability to create a portal site definition by using the PortalProvisioningProvider contained in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing assembly. This class parses an XML file and builds the site heirarchy defined in the file.