Configuring Authentication for SharePoint Foundation 2010
Authentication is the process of validating a user’s rights to log into your SharePoint Foundation 2010 site and verifying the level of access they should have. SharePoint Foundation 2010 uses IIS to manage user authentication. After IIS has determined that the user is authentic, SharePoint Foundation 2010 will perform the authorization. SharePoint Foundation 2010 will then allow the user to access the resources on the SharePoint Foundation 2010 site to which they have been given access.
SharePoint Foundation has provided support for federated authorization, also known as Web Single Sign On (Web SSO). This means that the authentication system is not local to the computer that hosts Windows ...
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