Video Demo: Implementing and Configuring FBA in SharePoint 2016 - Part 4 - Importing Users

PremierPoint Solutions Software Support Engineer and resident extranet guru, Mark Lewis, demonstrates the final phase in SharePoint 2016 Forms-based Authentication implementation: importing users:

Video Demo: Implementing and Configuring FBA in SharePoint 2016 - Part 3 - Editing the web.config file

PremierPoint Solutions Software Support Engineer and resident extranet guru, Mark Lewis, demonstrates the third phase in SharePoint 2016 Forms-based Authentication implementation: editing the web.config files:

Video Demo: Implementing and Configuring FBA in SharePoint 2016 - Part 2 - Create a SQL DB for FBA users

PremierPoint Solutions Software Support Engineer and resident extranet guru, Mark Lewis, demonstrates the second phase in SharePoint 2016 Forms-based Authentication implementation: creating a SQL database in which to store FBA users:

Video Demo: Implementing and Configuring FBA in SharePoint 2016 - Part 1 - Configuring the Web Application

PremierPoint Solutions Software Support Engineer and resident extranet guru, Mark Lewis, demonstrates the first phase in SharePoint 2016 Forms-based Authentication implementation: creating and configuring the web app:

Create Nested Sub-site With ChangeBot (Relative URL)

We always recommend you create a site collection for every extranet site you create. There are many reasons why this is the preferred method, however, some of our customers have found that multiple levels of sub-sites are best for their environment. These customers still want to use ChangeBot to automatically create sites, add users, and other general maintenance items on these nested sub-sites but run into an issue with how to populate the URL. Do you allow your users to manually enter it and possible have a typo?

Below are the steps for setting up your ChangeBot Request Profile so that you can successfully build your Relative URL and provision a site at a subsite level. In the steps below, we have two variables that can be populated with a drop down box (Inputs.Subsite and Inputs.SiteTitle) and the key to making it work correctly is in Step 10... using $inputs.Subsite/$Inputs.SiteTitle to define our Subsite and sub-subsite title to form the URL.

Example Usage:

1. Create an Input Property cooresponding to the subsite name
2. Generate site collection property output through Create Site Collection Activity
3. Create a new activity in the execution plan of your request profile
4. Set the Activity Type to Create Site
5. Click the function button next to the Site Collection box
6. Click the Property Group drop down and select Execution Properties
7. Click the Property drop down and select the Properties.[SiteCollectionProperty] that was previously defined
   

Redirection Receiver-Choose a Picture Dependant on Registration Response

Let’s say we wanted to add an image to a User’s profile to quickly identify them as a member of an external customers’ organization. Perhaps you work with multiple vendors and you want to add their logo to the user’s profile. Following the below steps will allow you to add a photo to an external user based on selecting an answer from a drop down list on the registration page.

The first step we need to do if you have not already, is to add the picture column to the Hidden user information list for the site collection in question. We are working in the root site collection, which we suggest all users have access to, so you only have to do this step on the root site collection. If however, you do not allow users access to the root site collection, then this step will need to be repeated on all site collections you want to view a users’ picture on.

Navigate to <sitecollectionurl>/_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0. now, you will see 2 new menus.

ExCM Lost In Translation

In the 2003 movie Lost In Translation, Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson’s characters, being the odd couple they were, found a way to communicate and translate their emotions and interest while stuck in a country and culture they knew nothing about. Just like in the movie, the merging of two individuals, cultures, languages or businesses can lead to communication issues and all around frustration.