SharePoint Connections Session Follow Up: Create an Internet-Facing SharePoint Site

During the Create an Internet-Facing SharePoint Site session I covered the following topics.

1. Setting up forms based authentication.
2. Creating your own custom Master Pages and style sheets
3. Personalizing site content for users.
4. Leveraging the Business Data Catalog to surface and interact with back end systems.
5. Each of these topics is broken down more in depth in this blog post. All the code used during my demos can be found in the rar file linked at the end of this post.
6. Setting up forms based authentication
7. Because a brief survey revealed almost the entire audience had already attended a session that covered setting up forms based authentication for SharePoint sites, I moved quickly through the materials related to setting up forms based authentication for SharePoint sites and did not spend a lot of time on it.

At any rate, here are the step by step instructions that describe how to set up a SharePoint site to use forms based authentication.

*Note: There are also several GREAT blog posts that describe how to set up FBA with SharePoint sites available on the Internet as well

Click here for detailed information.