Comments on: SharePoint 2013 FBA Pack Released

By: Chris Coulson

Chris Coulson — Sun, 19 May 2019 12:19:31 +0000

In reply to Janice Dawley. This does sound strange, and I can't say i've heard of this being reported before. It sounds like it's not installed/deployed properly. Best is probably to remove it and reinstall/redeploy. I'd probably try undeploying + uninstalling it from the Manage Farm Solutions page on Central Admin, and then reinstall/redeploy using the included deploy.ps1 script, which should deploy it everywhere. And then just activate the 'Forms Based Authentication Management' Site Collection Feature on any site collection you want to use it on.

By: Janice Dawley

Janice Dawley — Sat, 18 May 2019 16:43:03 +0000

Hi Chris —

Love the FBA Pack — it’s been working great for us!

One question I have after installing the latest SharePoint 2013 CU… I got an error during upgrade on our central admin server regarding the FBA Pack feature being missing — and the feature is indeed not there in the FEATURES folder on the server. It doesn’t prevent the upgrade from finishing, but it lists it as “failed”. The upgrade works fine on our WFE which is actually using the FBA Pack and does have the feature installed. I’ve tried deploying the feature to the central admin server, but it refuses to install it, I guess because the FBA Pack is scoped as a “front end web server” solution?

Anyway, it’s not a big deal, but I’m wondering if you have any ideas on how I can keep the upgrade on Central Admin from throwing errors?

By: Chris Coulson

Chris Coulson — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 20:33:07 +0000

In reply to Loretta English.

Just run the deploy script. Instructions are here:

https://www.visigo.com/products/sharepoint-fba-pack/documentation/

By: Loretta English

Loretta English — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 20:29:25 +0000

Hello,
I already have fba working on a site. I want to add the User Management features. Can I do that with the FBA Pack? Just run the Activate script?

Thanks.

By: Chris Coulson

Chris Coulson — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 03:44:54 +0000

In reply to Stephen. I haven't tested it, but I don't see why it wouldn't be.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 23:01:01 +0000

I would like to know if the user database is compatible with a SQL 2014 AlwaysOn cluster configuration?

By: Ovais

Ovais — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:45:58 +0000

In reply to Chris Coulson. Thanks Chris. I have taken latest WSP from download and deployed and it works fine now. Earlier, I downloaded source code and create package and used. Seems like either the source code is not updated or missing reference of file as you mentioned earlier.

By: Chris Coulson

Chris Coulson — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:41:59 +0000

In reply to Ovais.

From the error it looks like the FBA Pack didn’t complete deploying properly – it can’t find one of the files that is included in the deployment. I’d rerun the ./deploy.ps1 script on the SharePoint machine, which will undeploy and then redeploy the solution.

By: Ovais

Ovais — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:13:44 +0000

After deploying the package in SharePoint 2013 environment, every thing is working fine except the Password change action item in welcome dropdown. Admin is able to change password using FBA Management but users are not able to change it by themselves. the error which is coming while clicking on Change Password option for any user is below:

Application error when access /_layouts/15/FBA/ChangePassword.aspx, Error=The file ‘/_layouts/FBA/WEBPARTS/ChangePasswordWebPart/ChangePasswordTemplate.ascx’ does not exist.
at System.Web.UI.Util.CheckVirtualFileExists(VirtualPath virtualPath)
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetVPathBuildResultInternal(VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean noBuild, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean allowBuildInPrecompile, Boolean throwIfNotFound, Boolean ensureIsUpToDate)
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetVPathBuildResultWithNoAssert(HttpContext context, VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean noBuild, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean allowBuildInPrecompile, Boolean throwIfNotFound, Boolean ensureIsUpToDate)
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetVPathBuildResult(HttpContext context, VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean noBuild, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean allowBuildInPrecompile, Boolean ensureIsUpToDate)
at System.Web.UI.TemplateControl.LoadTemplate(VirtualPath virtualPath)
at Visigo.Sharepoint.FormsBasedAuthentication.TemplateLoader.System.Web.UI.ITemplate.InstantiateIn(Control container)
at System.Web.UI.WebControls.ChangePassword.CreateChangePasswordViewControls()
at System.Web.UI.WebControls.ChangePassword.CreateChildControls()
at System.Web.UI.Control.EnsureChildControls()
at System.Web.UI.WebControls.ChangePassword.get_ChangePasswordTemplateContainer()
at Visigo.Sharepoint.FormsBasedAuthentication.ChangePasswordWebPart.AddChangePasswordControl()
at Visigo.Sharepoint.FormsBasedAuthentication.ChangePasswordWebPart.CreateChildControls()
at System.Web.UI.Control.EnsureChildControls()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)

Any helo would be highly appreciated. I already specified the settings in all 3 web.configs as per below:

enablePasswordReset=”true” enablePasswordRetrieval=”false” passwordFormat=”Clear” requiresQuestionAndAnswer=”false” requiresUniqueEmail=”false”

By: Chris Coulson

Chris Coulson — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:30:25 +0000

In reply to abdul ch.

Using the ‘deploy’ scripts that come with it will update it. Documentation about deploy here:

https://www.visigo.com/products/sharepoint-fba-pack/documentation/