I was looking for a comprehensive list of limitations to using FBA tonight (Forms Based Authentication) and I stumbled across a few good resources that I’m bookmarking for myself here (and if they’ve just helped you, then great).

Links

• Extranet Collaboration toolkit for SharePoint – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc268155.aspx
  • Yet to use it but looks promising for ‘next time’
• Forms Base Authentication Tools and Utils for SharePoint 2007 – http://fba.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=basic%20FBA%20user%20and%20role%20management
  • Provide management of your user accounts/roles from within a SharePoint Site
• Enable Forms-Based Authentication for a Windows SharePoint Services Site Collection (Using IIS 7) – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd251268.aspx
  • Webcast, showing process for IIS 7
• FBA Walkthrough – http://www.devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/03/01/Office-SharePoint-Server-2007-Forms-Based-Authentication-FBA-w-MySites-Walkthrough-Part-2.aspx
• Configuring ISA Server and FBA – Securing your SharePoint Sites with ISA 2006 using Forms Based Authentication
  • Nice Walkthrough of the process
• AD LDS, SharePoint and Forms Based Authentication (formerly ADAM) – http://www.gk.id.au/2009/05/ad-lds-sharepoint-and-forms-based.html
  • Haven’t tried this yet but already like the idea of using AD LDS over the SQL Provider

FBA Limitations References

• Everything I know about SharePoint FBA (by the SharePoint Hillbilly) – http://geekswithblogs.net/SoYouKnow/archive/2009/03/11/everything-i-know-about-sharepoint-fba.aspx
  • Quick read, some good links there
• SharePoint Limitations and Options (by the Nimble Coder) – http://nimblecoder.com/blog/archive/2008/04/23/sharepoint-fba-limitations-and-options.aspx
  • Great, screenshots, always helpful – demonstrating some of the differences you’ll experience with client integration turned off
• Microsoft Information – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977430.aspx
  • Spells out some limitations in there as well

I’ll endeavour to add to this as time goes on, if I remember. 🙂