Tag: Forms Based Authentication (FBA)

  • Error when creating new Site Collections via Central Administration

    Error when creating new Site Collections via Central Administration

    A customer recently reported that they were not able to create any new Site Collections within any Web Application in their SharePoint 2013 UAT environment. Instead of being able to create a new Site Collection they repeatedly received the error shown in the image below. I in order to troubleshoot this issue I tried creating a…

  • Configuring a host name with a SSL Certificates in IIS 7

    Configuring a host name with a SSL Certificates in IIS 7

    A customer asked me if I could help troubleshoot their SharePoint environment – they had extended a web application and configured it to use Forms Based Authentication (FBA) with SSL however they were getting errors when accessing the new site. I started troubleshooting the configuration across all the servers in their SharePoint 2013 farm. I…

  • Forms Based Authentication Configuration Manager for SharePoint

    Forms Based Authentication Configuration Manager for SharePoint

    I’ve configured Forms Based Authentication (FBA) in SharePoint on several occasions – from 2007 right through to 2013, but until now I have never discovered a life-saving tool that Steve Peschka has written called Forms Based Authentication Configuration Manager (FBA Configuration Manager for SharePoint 2013) available on his TechNet Blog Share-n-dipity. I’ve been there at least…