From Tony
Bierman at the SharePoint
Solutions Blog.
This looks like a great little tool to help provision FBA sites
with a SQL Server user store. This is something that we've wanted
to do with the Custom Forms
Authentication Feature for a while now, so it's great to see
that its already been done. It's basically a power shell app that
runs you through a bunch of wizard steps:
- Create a new aspnetdb user auth store in Sql Server
- Initialize the auth store with an initial user
- Provision the SharePoint Web Application
- Configure membership provider and role manager data in the web
application's web.config
- Add top-level site to the web application, turn on forms-based
auth, and add the FBA user as admin
There is a flash demo that you can have a look at
here. Looking forward to the release so we can try it out with
the FBA feature.