Forms Based Authentication Articles Published
Steve Peschka has published a series of articles on forms based authentication in Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Part 1 discusses FBA itself, Part 2 talks about providers, and Part 3 discusses some of the differences between FBA and Windows authentication.
- Forms Authentication in SharePoint Products and Technologies (Part 1): Introduction
- Forms Authentication in SharePoint Products and Technologies (Part 2): Membership and Role Provider Samples
- Forms Authentication in SharePoint Products and Technologies (Part 3): Forms Authentication vs. Windows Authentication
This is the first real "authoritative" say on FBA to date from Microsoft. I can't wait until I have to do is click a button to do this!
One thing that I did not see mentioned in the white papers during my initial scan was to be sure that the account that you are using as the application pool's identity for the FBA website in question has the rights it needs within SQL Server to access the ASP.NET membership schemas.