Configuring Claims Based Authentication for SharePoint 2010

You now configure claims based authentication in SharePoint 2010. The new web application will be able to authenticate using a Windows identity or custom identity. It is easy to configure claims based authentication in SharePoint 2010. The following Try It Yourself example enables the web application to use both forms based authentication and active directory authentication by configuring claims based authentication. The forms based authentication uses the System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider class. You can easily use any other membership provider class and enable any custom mode of authentication.

To configure claims based authentication for SharePoint 2010, follow the next steps. ...

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