SharePoint FBA

Forms Based Authentication

So what is FBA and what is Forms Based Authentication?  FBA is a way to provide your own data store to authenticate users against using a web form as the input method.  It is really just your own login method.  To authenticate you can use SQL Server, XML, Windows Live IDs and more.  This site has links to a number of these providers as well as links on how to set up FBA for SharePoint 2007.  In addition to the links for the providers, there are links for open source and third party tools that have the controls you would need to get started.  FBA will require you to modify config files, so good luck!

[SharePoint Team Blog] Update on SharePoint forms based authentication(FBA) and Office client

This is a review on how to set up better integration between the Office Clients and SharePoint using Forms Based Authentication (FBA).

Check out the full blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/13/update-on-sharepoint-forms-based-authentication-fba-and-office-client.aspx

[Blog Post] Add Forms Based Authentication (FBA) users into your Shared Service Provider (SSP) User Profiles

This blog post demonstrates how to set up your SSP to add users from your Forms Based Authentication Zones.

Read the entire post here: http://www.devcow.com/blogs/adnrg/archive/2008/01/02/add-forms-based-authentication-users-into-your-shared-service-providers-user-profiles.aspx