{"id":132,"date":"2013-01-02T13:49:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T18:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.visigo.com\/chriscoulson\/?p=132"},"modified":"2013-01-22T10:41:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T15:41:50","slug":"configuring-forms-based-authentication-in-sharepoint-2013-part-1-creating-the-membership-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.visigo.com\/chriscoulson\/configuring-forms-based-authentication-in-sharepoint-2013-part-1-creating-the-membership-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2013 – Part 1 – Creating the Membership Database"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 be done directly in the .config files. I’ll go through all of the steps required to setup FBA for SharePoint 2013, from start to finish. \u00a0I’ve broken down the steps into 4 sections, so if you already have an existing membership database setup from a previous version of SharePoint, feel free to skip forward to Part 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Part 1 – Creating the Membership Database<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 2 – Adding Users to the Membership Database<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 3 – Editing the Web.Config Files<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 4 – \u00a0Configuring SharePoint<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 1 – Creating the Membership Database<\/h2>\n

The first thing you need when configuring FBA for SharePoint is a place to keep all of the usernames and passwords. ASP.Net comes with a tool that we’ll use to create a membership database to store the logon information.<\/p>\n