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SharePoint 2016: Forms Based Authentication – Part 4

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In the previous article SharePoint 2016: Forms Based Authentication – Part 3 of this series on implementing FBA with SharePoint we saw the execution of Step 5 for the process.

In this last article of this series we are going to see the execution of Step 6 & 7 and for the sake of quick review am putting up the process diagram again in here.

Process Diagram

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Step 6: Add External Users

  • Go to IIS
  • Select the Web Application on the left navigation pane
  • Click “.Net Users” on the right section

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Sometimes you might encounter the following error, this happens because the Default Provider is not set at the time you are trying to Add Users

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In order to set the default provider, you need to click the “Set Default Provider” link under Actions Pane on the right

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Select the membership provider as we configured in the earlier steps

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Now you can add the users.

Click the “Add” Link under the Actions Pane

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Adding user information as needed

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Click “Next”

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Click “Finish”

And we can see the first FBA user in our system

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Step 7: Test Forms Based Authentication

Browse the Web Application Via browser

We can see the Selection Window for the choosing the preferred Authentication mechanism

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Let’s choose Windows Authentication first since we did not give explicit permissions to the FBA User yet, that is why the system won’t allow the user to login to the SharePoint Site.

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And being an authenticated Windows User we are good to go and able to see the Web Application Home Page

Then click “Site Settings”

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Click “People and groups”

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Click “Add Users” to add a new user to the desired security group.

In here we are adding a new user to the Members Groups.

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Type the name of the FBA user that you have added

In here the FBA User name is “FBAUser”

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Share the site with FBA user

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We can see the FBA User added to the Group

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Now when we are going to browse the Web Application and go with Forms Based Authentication

Choosing this setting will present default login page as we selected in the earlier steps while enabling Web Application with FBA.

Enter FBA user name & password

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And since we granted the permission to this FBA User in the SharePoint Site, SharePoint allows you to login to the site using FBA user credentials.

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That is all for this series.

Hope you find it helpful.