Enabling MySites with Forms Based Authentication sites

Back in October of last year, I posted an article the documented how to setup a Publishing site with two authentication paths: one being Windows Auth and not anonymous, the other with Forms Based Authentication. Been quite a popular post... with 91 comments since October 21, 2006!

» HOWTO: Configuring a Office SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Site with Dual Authentication Providers and Anonymous Access

Aside from quite a few "it doesn't work" comments that were usually resolved from a typo in a web.config, by far the most popular question was about My Sites and how FBA "breaks" My Sites. Thankfully this isn't the case and the "break" is not a bug or problem after all. The "issue" is that My Sites require profiles and a Shared Service Provider (SSP). I'd been meaning to go back and write a follow up to that post on how you setup My Sites with it, but alas, where's the time!

Thankfully Dan Attis has written a fantastic post on how to do just this. In Part 2 of his two-part FBA article, he documents how to set it up. Makes a great add-on to my original post!

» Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Forms Based Authentication (FBA) w/MySites Walk-through - Part 2

Technorati tags: sharepoint, moss, wss, fba, mysite, ssp

posted on Sunday, March 04, 2007 7:27 PM

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# re: Enabling MySites with Forms Based Authentication sites 3/6/2007 1:13 PM Oli

Not to spoil the party, but isn't there some licensing roadblock with SharePoint sites that face both internally and externally?? (i.e. I think you need separate licenses/installations for each)

# re: Enabling MySites with Forms Based Authentication sites 3/7/2007 8:34 AM AC [MVP MOSS]

Oli-
I intentionally didn't address licensing at all, I'm strictly talking about what's possible. Licensing is a mess of a discussion in and of itself.

# re: Enabling MySites with Forms Based Authentication sites 6/14/2007 5:33 PM randy

i am wondering about Oli's point. I'd like to offer a My Site to a subset of registered users but am not sure if this is going to be in violation of the licensing.

Speculation is welcome!

# re: Enabling MySites with Forms Based Authentication sites 2/5/2008 2:58 PM Jonathan Drury

AC,
I have aFBA situation that I was wondering if you have every seen. After following the process on your site, MSDN, and others we have setup a dual authentication site with FBA and windows auth. Everythign seems fine, however *all* my FBA users seem to have read only access to all the sites in the collection. When I look at the site permissions only my admin FBA user is listed. When I look at the policy for web application in CA, the only users listed are a couple windows users, and my FBA admin user. Any idea why this is happening?

# re: Enabling MySites with Forms Based Authentication sites 2/5/2008 4:06 PM jonathan drury

Please ignore my previous post... the issue stemed from initially setting up the webapp on a different port than 80 and not having the host header forward it to the FBA port app. A assumption made was that anonymous access in sharepoint was setting IIS access, and giving fba users access to view the login page.

Thanks
Jonathan

# re: Enabling MySites with Forms Based Authentication sites 3/22/2008 7:17 AM sarawoot

If I use web sso Authentication ,How can I enable My Sites

# re: Enabling MySites with Forms Based Authentication sites 3/24/2008 9:52 PM AC [MVP MOSS]

Sarawoot-
I'm not 100% certain as I haven't worked much with SSO, but what's needed for My Sites is a profile for each user. Might want to try the setup/admin MSDN forum (there are links on my WCM linkfest).

# re: Enabling MySites with Forms Based Authentication sites 7/8/2008 12:58 PM Ani

Hello

I having multiple providers (windows as well as FBA). Everything is wroking fine. Now whenever I try to add FBA user using "User profiles and properties " from SSP provider, gettting following error
------------
Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
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Can you please suggest me what should be the problem?

ANi

# re: Enabling MySites with Forms Based Authentication sites 3/20/2009 2:03 PM Alex

What is you hav an ISA firewall that is blocking the mysites access due to he use of anonymos? how can I get this functionality working?

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