Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Configuring Mixed-Mode Authentication Scenarios

Mixed-mode authentication, illustrated in Figure 13.8, uses the same approach used in SharePoint 2007 for authenticating different types of users with different authentication providers. In mixed-mode authentication, the primary web application uses the default security zone with Windows authentication. To use more than one authentication provider, the primary web application must be extended to another IIS application. Each IIS application requires a unique URL. A different authentication provider can be configured for each IIS application. SharePoint recognizes the new IIS applications as part of the primary web application. As a result, the specific IIS applications share the same content (content ...