Technorati Charts - SharePoint 2007

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SharePoint 2007 Hotfix KB 936867

I recently had problems when the security inheritance was broken for a document library on a WSS site for a MOSS 2007 installation. After raising a support request Microsoft issued a hot fix. The hotfix package also addresses KB 934577, 935958, 937038.

• 934577 - Not public
• 936867 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936867
• 935958 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935958
• 937038 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937038

I received an email from "ISA IT Department" on this post http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1881157&SiteID=1. He was receiving forbidden errors from SharePoint, after installing the hot fix 936867 all issues were fixed.

I would recommend anyone experiencing issues with security to request this hotfix. Always backup the SharePoint SQL Server databases and do a complete farm SharePoint backup before installing. The hotfix at the time of downloading it hasn't been fully regression tested yet so backup the SharePoint environment first.

SharePoint 2007 Forms Authentication with Sql Server

Dan Attis has two great articles about configuring forms authentication against SQL Server with MOSS.

Part one - Configuring Forms Authentication with SharePoint
http://devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/02/23/Office_SharePoint_Server_2007_Forms_Based_Authentication_FBA_Walkthrough_Part_1.aspx

Part two - Configuring Forms Authentication with MySites
http://devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/03/01/Office_SharePoint_Server_2007_Forms_Based_Authentication_FBA_w_MySites_Walkthrough_Part_2.aspx
Points to note:

• If you cant resolve your SQL users in the Central Administration you need to grant database access to the identity (user) that runs under the application pool account and make sure you have added Membership provider and Role Manager to the central administration web.config.
• My deployment was configured intially for authentication with Active Directory. My SSP Admin site couldn't resolve the SQL users. I resolved this by creating a web application that extended the SSP Admin site to another port, setting the authentication to forms and specifying the Membership provider and Role Manager.

There's a useful tool on CodePlex for managing the Forms Based Authentication users in SharePoint, please see http://www.codeplex.com/fba