1.6. Authentication Types
In conjunction with IIS, SharePoint supports several different ways to allow users to authenticate. They are not exclusive; you can choose to apply multiple types of authentication to a web application. IIS will apply the most restrictive method first. If that fails, it will try the second most-restrictive method, and so on until it finally refuses the client or lets them log in.
A Rose by Any Other Name ...You may have noticed that SharePoint uses the same terminology in several different ways in several different places. Here is a quick rundown on some of them: Authentication Provider: (sometimes referred to as Membership Providers): Usually refer to the services that provide authentication like SQL Forms based ... |
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