Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Vol 1 part 32. This course is intended for IT Professionals who use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in a team-based, medium-sized to large environment. While they may have implemented a SharePoint deployment, they have limited experience in designing a SharePoint infrastructure. They likely work as a senior administrator who acts as a technical lead over a team of administrators. Members of this audience should have at least 6 months experience with SharePoint 2010. | Planning Authentication 6-13 authentication enables user authentication that is based on validation of credential input from a logon form. Unauthenticated requests are redirected to a logon page where the user must provide valid credentials and submit the form. If the request can be authenticated the system issues a cookie that contains a key for reestablishing the identity for subsequent requests. Configuring Forms-Based Authentication Using forms-based authentication as an authentication method for users requires some configuration. You must register the membership provider in the file and you can also register a role manager. SharePoint 2010 uses the role manager interface to gather group information about the current user the authorization process treats each role as a domain group. You can also manage membership providers and role managers through SharePoint 2010 Central Administration. You must register the membership provider and the role manager in the file for the Central Administration site in addition to registering these in the file for the Web application that hosts the content. Integrating with forms-based authentication places additional requirements on the authentication provider. In addition to registering the various elements in the file you must program the membership provider role manager and HTTP module to interact with SharePoint 2010 and methods. Forms-based authentication passes credentials over HTTP so using SSL to encrypt this traffic is highly recommended. Additional Reading For more information about how to plan authentication methods see http fwlink LinkID 200884 clcid 0x409. For more information about how to configure forms-based authentication in SharePoint 2010 see http fwlink LinkID 201239 clcid 0x409. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 6-14 Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Secure Store Service Authorization .
