I just configured Forms Based Authentication (FBA) with Visigo solution( https://www.visigo.com/products/sharepoint-fba-pack/) in Sharepoint2019 using this blog ( https://blogs.visigo.com/chriscoulson/configuring-forms-based-authentication-in-sharepoint-2016-sharepoint-2019-part-4-adding-users-to-the-membership-database ). But I got error in "Manage Forms Based Authentication Users" with below message in Part4 when I click on FBA user management:
"A Membership Provider has not been configured correctly. Check the web.config settings for this web application."
Sharepoint 2019 FBA (Form based authentication)
I have rechecked my web.config and nothing seems to be wrong.
I did same in sharepoint2016 and it was working as well without any problem.
Anyone has any idea please?
The error means that the membership provider can’t talk to the database – could be for a variety of reasons. It might be some misconfiguration in the config files. Usually it’s a SQL Server permission issue that causes the problem. You have to make sure that the SharePoint app pool user has DBO permissions on the membership database.
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I am facing an issue with windows authentication in IIS. I have a website which is intranet site. But the problem is that only the admins of IIS can use it, not the other users in the same intranet. Windows authentication pop up is showing but after entering the username and password it is displaying the same authentication pop up.
I actually found the answer to this, it might help someone who will be stuck like me. The problem was in the security tab we did not add user Account as "Users". We had all the accounts like IIS_USRS,admin, etc but we forgot to add "Users". After adding it allowed everyone to access the site.
The strange thing is when your application doesn't need Windows authentication then IIS_USRS are enough otherwise don't forget to add "Users" or whatever account needed to access.
This can normally happen, by permissions a bad configuration of permissions.
Try doing some of the following options.
1.Verify that the user of the "Applications Pools" where the app is running, has the necessary permissions in the location where the app is located.
2.Verify that you have "Windows Authentication" enabled in your app. (Of course this is only if your app requires Windows Authentication if your app does not require Windows Authentication only activates Anonymous Authetincation and deactivates the others.)
3.Verify your app providers are set in this order for Windows Authentication(NTLM,Negotiate)
We have configured Okta as a trusted authentication provider to out SharePoint 2013 On-Premises environment. The user can log into Okta and access the SharePoint 'app' but when it connects them to the homepage, they are met with 'Sorry this site has not been shared with you'. It's like their account does not have access to SP, or is not being recognised. I can see in the logs that a valid SAML token is coming in, but I think we might be missing a step where that is converted to a valid Active Directory account.
In the deployment guide they talk about 'recommending' that we install the Okta People Picker plugin. I don't want to do this if we don't have to, I was under the impression we didn't need to add 'Okta' users into SharePoint as it would map the SAML claim to their Active Directory account and grant them the same access they would have if they were inside the network...
Any help would be appreciated.
First off, in order for users to be able to be looked up you'll need to definitely add the people picker plugin in. The biggest snag that the documentation doesn't accurately describe is that you'll need to import the okta cert chain to the server and establish trust in central admin for 2013 (not just 2010 only). Following all steps in the guide (including certs) got that going.
Okta-SharePoint on-prem guide: https://support.okta.com/help/articles/Knowledge_Article/Microsoft-SharePoint-On-Premises-Deployment-Guide
As for access to the site: once you get the people picker configured then you need to ensure you have migrated your user profile users from AD as the new type of claim for your identity provider. For the most part you can follow the guide below and just update the appropriate spots for Okta:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sambetts/2014/09/03/how-to-migrate-sharepoint-users-to-adfs/
For extended troubleshooting I would recommend leveraging a ULS log viewing tool and to filter the results by the name of your claim identity provider.
I installed SharePoint Foundation on Windows 7 Home to use locally only. I don't ever intend to expose this publicly, so I want to use anonymous access for everything but am unable to do so. I keep getting "401 UNAUTHORIZED" errors when I go to the central admin site. I have a different, ASP-based website on the same computer that anonymous access works just fine for, so I believe this is SharePoint related but don't know how.
I enabled anonymous access for all three SharePoint web sites, first using the Application Pool Identity and then a Specific User (with admin rights), but still no luck. I set all the Application Pool Identities to first "Local System", and then to a specific user (with admin rights) and still no luck.
I've seen other posts on this issue, but nothing else works for me.
I don't think you can enable Anonymous access for the Central Administration site - just the non-admin sites.
I have two questions on wss 3.0
How to know that kind of authentication is currently in use.
How do I set the authentication in such a way that users on office network don't have to input user name\password? So if users are in the office they can just go straight in without using a password? Those outside the office will obviously still have to use the password.
Detail answer would be really great.
For #2, you also need to make sure that Internet Explorer has your site listed as a trusted site or intranet site so that IE will be willing to pass the credentials to the Sharepoint Server
There are two build-in authentication types: windows and forms.
You can configure it in central administration (as far as I remember in "Application Management" section).
Windows authentication will use current user's windows credentials to login on site. So if SharePoint is configured with windows authentication and permissions were granted to user there will be no request to enter login/password. In other case (outside of office for example) site will ask for credentials.
I have created an authetication provider and went to central administration >> Authentication Providers and changed the authentication settings to Forms and filled in Membership provider and Role manager details.
Now, when i go to create a site collection under the above mentioned web application, the people picker in the create site collection page still refers to the active directory(central admin has windows authentication).
Can any one explain this behaviour?
I actually expected the People picker in the Create site collection page to refer to the Forms database rather than active directory.
Thanks
In the web.config for your web app, you need to change the value in the <PeoplePickerWildcards> node. Change the key to your membership provider.
You need to add your the configuration information for the membership provider to the web.config file for Central Administration. This will allow Central Admin to find from both AD and your own membership. There are examples on Technet for a SQL Server and an LDAP membership provider. Note how it mentions that the membership provider info needs to be added to both the web app's web.config and to Central Admin's. If you're using a Role Manager though, don't put that info in the Central Admin web.config, or at least not unless you really know what you're doing and why. :)
Once you do this the people picker should be able to find people from your FBA solution's membership provider. One little caveat if you happen to be using the same AD store (or some kind of replica) for both Windows auth and LDAP auth. You'll need to use the "prefix" of your membership provider name when specifying the user, otherwise the people picker will always lookup the native AD version of that user. For example, looking up "jdoe" will always find "domain\jdoe" first. If you want jdoe from an LDAP provider pointing at that AD, you'll have to explicitly put in "ldap:jdoe" (substituting whatever you called your membership provider in the web.config for "ldap"