• SharePoint 2016 FBA Pack Released

    The SharePoint 2016 FBA Pack has been released. It was ported from the SharePoint 2013 FBA Pack (which was originally ported from the SharePoint 2007 CKS Forms Based Authentication Solution), and includes all of the features from the SharePoint 2013 FBA Pack: User Management Role Management Membership Request Web Part Password Recovery Web Part Change Password…

  • Mixing it up w/ Mixed SSL & SP 2010

    The following is a post written by Tim Nugiel with instructions for creating a custom cookie handler for mixed mode authentication.  I reference it in my blog post Mixed Http and Https Content with SharePoint 2010. The original article was posted at: http://www.msngn.com/blog/lists/posts/post.aspx?id=5. I’ve reposted it here, as the original article appears to have gone offline.  …

  • InfoQ FBA Pack Interview

    I was recently interviewed about the FBA Pack by Jonathan Allen of InfoQ.  The interview is here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/05/SharePoint-FBA

  • Shufflrr is Being Introduced at the NY Tech Meetup

    Shufflrr is a PowerPoint presentation management web app that I’ve been working on for the past year. This Tuesday, April 1st at 7:00 PM, Shufflrr will be introduced to the world at the NY Tech Meetup. Link to the meetup and live video stream of the presentation here: http://nytm.org/blog/entry/14-27-2014/lineup-for-april-1-ny-tech-meetup Link to Shufflrr: http://www.shufflrr.com/

  • Amazon EBS CrystalDiskMark Benchmarks – EBS Standard vs Provisioned IOPS

    I recently set up a provisioned IOPS EBS volume on Amazon EC2.  I decided to run CrystalDiskMark against it to see how it compared to a standard EBS volume in terms of performance.  I wanted to know if provisioned IOPS is worth the extra money that you pay for it.  Here are the results: EBS…

  • SharePoint 2013 FBA Pack Released

    The SharePoint 2013 FBA Pack has been released. It was ported from the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack (which was originally ported from the SharePoint 2007 CKS Forms Based Authentication Solution), and includes all of the features from the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack: User Management Role Management Membership Request Web Part Password Recovery Web Part Change Password…

  • Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2013 – Part 4 – Configuring SharePoint

    Configuring forms based authentication (FBA) in SharePoint 2013 is very similar to SharePoint 2010, but there are some differences due to SharePoint 2013 using .Net 4.0. The web.config entries entries are slightly different. As well, IIS doesn’t support editing .Net 4.0 membership provider configuration through the IIS interface, so all of the configuration has to…

  • Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2013 – Part 3 – Editing the Web.Config Files

    Configuring forms based authentication (FBA) in SharePoint 2013 is very similar to SharePoint 2010, but there are some differences due to SharePoint 2013 using .Net 4.0. The web.config entries entries are slightly different. As well, IIS doesn’t support editing .Net 4.0 membership provider configuration through the IIS interface, so all of the configuration has to…

  • Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2013 – Part 2 – Adding users to the Membership Database

    Configuring forms based authentication (FBA) in SharePoint 2013 is very similar to SharePoint 2010, but there are some differences due to SharePoint 2013 using .Net 4.0. The web.config entries entries are slightly different. As well, IIS doesn’t support editing .Net 4.0 membership provider configuration through the IIS interface, so all of the configuration has to…

  • Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2013 – Part 1 – Creating the Membership Database

    Configuring forms based authentication (FBA) in SharePoint 2013 is very similar to SharePoint 2010, but there are some differences due to SharePoint 2013 using .Net 4.0. The web.config entries entries are slightly different. As well, IIS doesn’t support editing .Net 4.0 membership provider configuration through the IIS interface, so all of the configuration has to…