Comments on: Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 – Part 4 – Adding Users to the Membership Database

By: Chris Coulson

Chris Coulson — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:23:29 +0000

In reply to Kor.

I haven’t actually seen that error before. Are you using the SQLMembershipProvider? If you check the SharePoint logs they will probably have more details on the error.

The usual error if something’s not configured properly (and usually because of database permission issues) is:
“A Membership Provider has not been configured correctly. Check the web.config settings for this web application.”

By: Kor

Kor — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:07:58 +0000

When I tried to create new user in ‘FBA User Management’, I got the error below and unable to create any new user. Any Idea to solve this, please?

‘The authentication provider returned an error. Please verify your entry and try again. If the problem persists, please contact your system administrator.’

By: Chris Coulson

Chris Coulson — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 01:45:59 +0000

In reply to Amit Verma. Are you accessing the site with HTTPS? Browsers have changed so that now the auth cookie only gets saved when running under HTTPS.

By: MES

MES — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:40:52 +0000

In reply to Zac. restart sharepoint administration service and try to run deploy command again.

By: Amit Verma

Amit Verma — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:02:37 +0000

In reply to Amit Verma. I am using SP2019

By: Amit Verma

Amit Verma — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:01:42 +0000

I’m having trouble getting the Sharepoint site home page to load when we log in, it remains on the login page.

By: Zac

Zac — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:42:43 +0000

Hi Chris, I’m not sure if you still look at the blog. I have run through the instructions and have completed each step but on step 4 when I try to deploy the wsp using the powershell I get the ……. Progress indicators which never complete or if I try manually to activate the solution it never completes. I have a fresh install of SharePoint SE patched to kb50002681. I am wondering if the solution is still compatible. The FBA is seams to be working as I get the correct fba login box. Any thoughts

By: Chris Coulson

Chris Coulson — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:28:37 +0000

In reply to CVP.

You shouldn’t get an error if you edit a user created in a separate site collection. The user’s profile is stored in each site collection though, so changes to profile fields don’t carry between site collections (This is what SharePoint’s User Profile Sync does for AD users).

If you are getting errors in this situation, maybe post screenshots/more details in https://forums.visigo.com.

By: CVP

CVP — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:42:34 +0000

has anyone enabled FBA user management for multiple site collections within the same web application? how do you deal with not knowing where a user was created? for example….

Root level
Site collection A
Site collection B
Site collection C

All users will show up anywhere you are accessing the FBA User Management. You will get an error if you try editing a user that was not created in the same site collect as where you are currently.

Would love to hear if others have addressed this before and how.

Thank you!

By: James

James — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:27:23 +0000

Hello, just for info, I had this exact same issue..

I double checked my machine.config and web.config, everything was fine…

But I figured it out, I forgot that I had 2 differents users for my web Apps, and they didn’t had the “db_owner” rights on the FBADB SQL Server…

Good luck everyone,

And thank you a lot for this perfect guide

James