Michael Freidgeim's Blog

I've tried to work with DotNetNuke Windows Authentication to extend it to work in mixed mode ( Use Windows Integrated Authentication for seamless logon intranet logon and use Forms authentication for users unable to use Windows Integrated authentication), as I did it before for my ASP.NET application .

I found that since I activated Windows Authentication, I can logon only as my domain account user,which does not have DNN portal host or admin roles. So I unable using DNN web interface to administrate DNN.

I had to open Users table in SQL server and changed my domain user record to be SuperUser. After this I was able to see host/admin menu, but my user-name wasn't shown.

After debugging the problem I recognized that setting 1 to SuperUser column of dnn Users table is not the only change that is required.

Microsoft Membership required to store user per application and SuperUser is stored for application “dnn-1”, which means “for all dnn application” (see discussions here and here). So just changing superUser flag is not enough and make DNN users and aspnet membership entries inconsistent.

I think that way as superUser membership is stored should be re-considered to find a better design solution(no good suggestion at the moment)

The conclusion are:

1.Before switching to Windows Authentication ensure that your LAN acoount has host/administrative permissions for the portal.

2.Use Portal UI to make a user SuperUser, don't update SQL table directly.

I have more then 70 entries im my blog, and I want to edit some old entry.

My question is: What is the best procedure to find the old entry?

How I am doing now:

1. Search in the Google with “site:geekswithblogs.net/mnf”  and keywords about the article.

2.Open the article or just note the date in the link url of the post.

3. Open my blog in Admin mode(EditPosts.aspx)

4.Estimate in my mind on which page the entry is located and open the page.

5.If I select the page correctly, open “edit“ link fot the post.Otherwise try step 4 again.

It is not a big problem, but it should be a better way to do this. Sometimes “category“ can help.

Ideally it should be options to search within “Edit Posts” and also  “Edit” link form individual post view.