SharePoint: Links for Forms Based Authentication (FBA)

Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint is truly a mixed bag. While great where Windows authentication is not practical, FBA has a lot of issues! Below are a few links I have found to be useful. Before you do the work to setup FBA read this list of "issues": http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977430.aspx The short list includes:

• Bugs with alerts (fixed with SP1)
• Issues with search, if the default authentication is not Windows
• By default integration with Office products is disabled (this includes Outlook sync, "Edit in...", Explorer views and the New button)
• Importing user profiles
• Single Sign-On Service does not work

By the way, many of these issues are not major items when working with a public facing Internet site not using "team collaboration" type features. If you are still interested, then:

• Forms Authentication in SharePoint Products and Technologies (MSDN)
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Forms Based Authentication (FBA) Walk-through
• A good Forms Based Authentication set of web parts: SharePoint/MOSS 2007 Forms Based Authentication Login/Registration Web Part
• SharePoint screens/pages for maintaining your FBA users: codeplex.com
• Another similar project from the same site: codeplex.com This part of a larger project named "Community Kit for SharePoint" found here: http://www.codeplex.com/CKS