Contents tagged with Forms Authentication
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FBA and the SSPPP (Shared Service Provider People Picker)
This week, I had to create a few profiles (by hand) for Forms Auth user accounts. Of course, in order to do this, you need to make sure the SSP's People Picker can recognize them. I dutifully added the provider info and the requisite connection string to the SSP web.config, spun it up, and... nothing. It had no idea who these users were.
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Audiencing with Forms-Based Authentication (FBA)
This really is no different from when you create an audience with regular old NTLM (Windows Authentication). The difference is that while the AD provider is set up by default in all environments, the extra membership provider (that you use for Forms Authentication) isn't included anywhere except in the web application where you install it. To be able to find your FBA users in the audience creation tool, you'll need to add the extra membership provider(s) to the web.config for your SSP site in IIS. At that point, the People Picker should start recognizing your Forms Auth users, and you can create your audience as needed.