SharePoint 2016 - Forms Based Authentication

In the previous article SharePoint 2016: Forms Based Authentication – Part 2 of this series on implementing FBA with SharePoint, we saw the execution of steps 3 & 4 for the process.

In this article, we are going to see the execution of step 5 and for the sake of quick review, I am putting up the process diagram again here.

Process Diagram

Step 5 Configure Authentication Provider

In this step, we will associate the Membership Provider with the Web application that we want to enable with Form Based Authentication.

Go to Central Administration.
Click on "Manage Web Application".

Select the Web application.
Click on “Authentication Providers” link in the ribbon bar.

Click on the Zone “Default”.

On the Authentication Provider screen,

Check “Enable Forms Based Authentication (FBA)”.
Specify the Membership Provider name “SPMembership” that we configured previously.
Specify the Role Manager name “SPRoles” that we configured previously.

Under “Sign In” page section, you can choose to configure a custom Sign In page if you need, or you can proceed with default Sign In page provided by SharePoint OOB.

In this case, I am going along with default Sign In page offered by SharePoint OOB.

That is it for this part of the demo.

I will see you guys in the next article covering steps 6 & 7.

Hope you find it helpful.