SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack Released

I’ve just released the SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack on CodePlex:

http://sharepoint2010fba.codeplex.com/

The FBA Pack is a collection of web parts and tools for managing forms based authentication in SharePoint 2010. It is a port of the SharePoint 2007 CKS Forms Based Authentication Solution to SharePoint 2010. It has been changed extensively to work with SharePoint 2010’s claims based authentication and has been restructured to use Visual Studio 2010’s new SharePoint project type.

SharePoint 2010 can be configured out of the box to authenticate against an ASP.NET Membership database, but strangely it does not include any tools for managing membership users and roles, or any web parts to allow new users to register or to change/reset their password. That’s where the FBA Pack comes in – it contains:

User Management

Users can be created, deleted and edited, as well as assigned to Roles or SharePoint groups.

Manage Users Page

Role Management

Roles can be created and deleted.

Manage Roles Page

Change Password Web Part and Page

This highly configurable web part will allow a user to change their password. Additionally a built in Change Password page has been included, with a link to it on the users menu.

Change Password Page

Membership Request Web Part

This highly configurable web part will allow new users to register to site. An email will be sent to the user with their temporary password and instructions to login to the site. As well there is the option to review membership requests.

Membership Request Web Part

Password Recovery Web Part

This highly configurable web part will allow a user to reset their password. An email will be sent to he user with their temporary password and instructions on changing it.

Password Recovery Web Part

Membership Review List

The FBA Pack can be configured to allow new user requests to be moderated. The membership review list displays all new membership requests, which can either be accepted or rejected.

Membership Review Page

Posted

April 19, 2011

Forms Based Authentication, Sharepoint

Chris Coulson

Comments

24 responses to “SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack Released”

Michael Miller

April 21, 2011

Is this free to use?

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1. Chris Coulson
  
  April 21, 2011
  
  This is an open source project, so yes, it’s completely free to use. The source code is also available on CodePlex, so hopefully it will receive even further enhancements from the community.
  
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Kamis SharePoint Consulting

April 22, 2011

This looks great, and already testing this for a customer deployment requirement.

Would you prefer feedback here or on codeplex?

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1. Chris Coulson
  
  April 22, 2011
  
  Glad to hear it’s already getting some use! For any bug reports or technical questions, please post them on CodePlex.
  
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Geoff Varosky

April 28, 2011

Perfect timing on this project! I have been working on a blog series regarding extranets in SharePoint 2010, and my next post was on managing users… Thank you!

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SharePoint Training

April 28, 2011

FBA manager is great! loved the 2007 version..

-Josh

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May 3, 2011

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justin

May 3, 2011

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

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Andrew Twigg

October 11, 2011

Hi,

Great set of webparts. We’ve installed them on our SP Foundation server and worked almost straight away. We are having problems exposing them on the login page. What I’d like is the Membership request webpart to appear on the login page. This is so we don’t have to turn on anonymous access.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Andrew

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1. Chris Coulson
  
  October 11, 2011
  
  It is. Check out the discussion board on the Codeplex site:
  
  http://sharepoint2010fba.codeplex.com/discussions
  
  That’s where i’m handling all of the Q&A for the FBA Pack. There’s already some posts about doing this on there, and if you have any further questions feel free to post them there.
  
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siva

February 11, 2012

i am not able to find the cource code,please help me……

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1. Chris Coulson
  
  February 11, 2012
  
  You can download the source code from the downloads page:
  
  http://sharepoint2010fba.codeplex.com/releases/view/77295
  
  Or from the source code page:
  
  http://sharepoint2010fba.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets
  
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Davis

March 2, 2012

Hi,

Is there a way to add additional fields in user management list? for now it’s limited to username, email and full name. I wanted to add like first name and last name.

Thanks,
Davis

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1. Chris Coulson
  
  March 2, 2012
  
  There’s no way to do it through configuration. You can edit the code to add the additional fields.
  
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http://csharpdotnetfreak.blogspot.com

August 3, 2012

Read how to setup FBA

http://csharpdotnetfreak.blogspot.com/2012/08/sharepoint2010-forms-based-authentication-fba-claims.html

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The Red Baron

February 11, 2013

Hello,

Firstly let me say this, that your work is awesome. I have installed the .wsp file and it is working great. However when i downloaded the solution, I was unable to deploy the solution. Infact when i tried to Build the solution it gave me an Error COde 1. I googled it and found that the error could be resolved if i keep the solution in my C:. The Solution now gets Build and Deployed. How ever I am not able to see the Web Parts that have been deployed using the new soution.

Can u guide me through this please.?

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1. Chris Coulson
  
  February 11, 2013
  
  So the release version of the FBA Pack installs fine with the deploy scripts and you are just having issues deploying it from Visual Studio?
  
  Interesting, I haven’t heard of an Error Code 1. The only issues i’ve heard of while building the solution is if the folder is placed too deep – resulting in path names that are too long.
  
  If it gets built and deployed fine, but you can’t see the web parts, make sure that the feature has been activated in the Site Collection you are working on (Sites Settins -> Site Collection Features).
  
  Before you build it for the first time, you need to put a url to your Site Collection in the project properties. When VS deploys it, it will activate the feature on that site collection. So as long as you do your testing on the same site collection you enter in Visual Studio, it should already be deployed and activated there.
  
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vinit

December 24, 2013

Hi Freiends,

How to install the fba pack in Sharepoint 2010.
http://sharepoint2010fba.codeplex.com/documentation
According to the above link i have to install this using
e.g. .\deploy http://demo2010a:13824/.

if my folder location C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\SharePoint2010FBAPack.1.3.1
and my webiste URl is http://demo2010a:13824 then how to delopy it.

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1. Chris Coulson
  
  December 24, 2013
  
  Open powershell
  cd \users\administrator\desktop\Sharepoint2010fbapack.1.3.1
  .\deploy http://demo2010a:13824
  
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vishal

January 4, 2014

Hi Friends,

I am trying to install the FBA pack in sharepoint 2013 using Window Powershell But its giving error.Below is the error details

PS C:\Users\Administrator> cd C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\SharePoint2013FBAPack.1.3.3
PS C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\SharePoint2013FBAPack.1.3.3> ./deploy http://server:80/
Existing Timer job found. Deleting
Going to uninstall feature
uninstall-spfeature : Cannot find a Feature object with Path or Id: FBAManagement in scope Local farm.
At C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\SharePoint2013FBAPack.1.3.3\UnDeploy.ps1:59 char:2
+ uninstall-spfeature -identity $featureName -confirm:$false -force
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share…ninstallFeature:SPCmdletUninstallFeature) [Uninstall-SPF
eature], SPCmdletPipeBindException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletUninstallFeature

Going to uninstall solution
Uninstall-SPSolution : Cannot uninstall the LanguagePack 0 because it is not deployed.
At C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\SharePoint2013FBAPack.1.3.3\UnDeploy.ps1:62 char:2
+ Uninstall-SPSolution -identity $solutionName -allwebapplications -confirm:$fal …
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share…installSolution:SPCmdletUninstallSolution) [Uninstall-SP
Solution], SPCmdletException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletUninstallSolution

Waiting for job to finish
Timer job not found
Going to remove solution
Going to add solution

Name SolutionId Deployed
—- ———- ——–
visigo.sharepoint.formsbase… 956715d5-f34c-4b00-bfb7-8c35d5fa0f62 False
Going to install solution to all web applications
Waiting for job to finish
Waiting to finish job solution-deployment-visigo.sharepoint.formsbasedauthentication.wsp-0..Finished waiting for job..
Deactivating/activating active features to ensure activation script is run
Get-SPFeature : Cannot find a Feature object with Path or Id: FBAManagement in scope Local farm.
At C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\SharePoint2013FBAPack.1.3.3\Activate.ps1:3 char:13
+ $feature = Get-SPFeature $featureName
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share…mdletGetFeature:SPCmdletGetFeature) [Get-SPFeature], SPC
mdletPipeBindException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletGetFeature

Cannot find an overload for “QueryFeatures” and the argument count: “1”.
At C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\SharePoint2013FBAPack.1.3.3\Activate.ps1:4 char:2
+ $features = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService. …
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodCountCouldNotFindBest

Going to enable Feature
Enable-spfeature : The Feature is not a Farm Level Feature and is not found in a Site level defined by the Url
http://server:80/.
At C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\SharePoint2013FBAPack.1.3.3\Activate.ps1:29 char:2
+ Enable-spfeature -identity $featureName -confirm:$false -url $url
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share…etEnableFeature:SPCmdletEnableFeature) [Enable-SPFeature
], SPCmdletException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletEnableFeature

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1. Chris Coulson
  
  January 6, 2014
  
  I think the url you’re passing as a parameter is your central admin url. It needs to be the url to the site collection where the fba pack should be activated.
  
  Alternatively, you can just run ./deploy, and it will not activate on any site collection. Then you can go to the Site Collection -> Site Settings -> Site Collection Features, and activate the Forms Based Authentication Management feature.
  
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  1. Christian
    
    November 15, 2016
    
    Chris thanks so much for your concerted effort. I get error when i try to deploy the FBA pack with or without my site url. I would apprciate if you probably post what the issue might likely be.
    
    cannot find a feature object with path or id fba management in scope local farm
    
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    1. Chris Coulson
      
      November 15, 2016
      
      It sounds like the Add-SPSolution call is failing, so it’s not being added to SharePoint and not able to be deployed. Is there another error message prior to this one? I’d probably try a manual deploy – you can just call
      
      Add-SPSolution pathtowspfile
      
      This will add the solution to SharePoint, and then you should be able to deploy it via Central Admin – Manage Farm Solutions.
      
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