ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Configuring the AuthorizationStoreRoleProvider

Authorization Manager (AzMan) is a component of Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. You can use Authorization Manager to define roles, tasks, and operations.

Authorization Manager supports more features than the authorization framework included in ASP.NET Framework. For example, Authorization Manager supports role inheritance, which enables you to easily define new roles based on existing roles.

Authorization Manager can store role information in three different ways. You can create an authorization store by using an XML file, by using Active Directory, or by using Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

Before you use Authorization Manager with the ASP.NET Framework, you ...