IIS 7 Support for ASP.net Providers
Posted
Sunday, April 18, 2010 11:53 AM
by
Itay Shakury
The most Common method to expose SharePoint to extranet, is to use Forms Based Authentication, with ASP.net SQL Membership Provider. This topic has been covered a lot on many different places.
The thing is, when you setup for this scenario, you end up with everything working, but nor GUI to manage users in the DB.
IIS 7 has built in management for ASP.net Providers such as Membership, Roles, and Profiles.
And it’s really helpful!
You can see the list of users, add and delete users, and perform basic actions on them.
Same goes to roles.
And you can assign users to Roles.
If you don’t need self management features, and only use admin management, this addition to IIS can save you a great deal of development.