Posts Tagged ‘Authentication’

SharePoint Admin Kata 1 – Add FBA

Posted in Administration, Katas on 01/06/2010 02:18 pm by hilton.giesenow

Yesterday we had a developer Kata, so today I thought I’d kick off with one for the administrators. In this Kata, start with (or create) a site collection running with regular Windows authentication, then we’ll go ahead and add a Forms-Based Authentication zone. This will gives us practice in FBA, Alternate Access Mappings (AAMs) and Zones.

One note – for these administration Katas you’ll be working with a running instance of SharePoint. PLEASE don’t do these exercises on your live installation ;->

Here are the steps:

  1. Set up the Forms Based Authentication infrastructure (database, config changes, etc.)
  2. Extend the web application to a new URL (http://Intranet.MyCompany.Com)
  3. Configure the new web application’s security zone to use the FBA settings
  4. Create a hosts file entry on the machine to point to the new site, and test on the server
  5. Repeat step 4, this time on your workstation

If you haven’t worked with FBA before, here’s a video on How Do I: Add Forms-Based to an existing Windows Authentication Site?