Announcing Windows Live ID Authentication for SharePoint

I’m glad to announce that from now on you can find my project Windows Live ID Authentication for SharePoint on CodePlex.

Windows Live ID Authentication for SharePoint is a project that has been developed for some time for the upcoming Swedish SharePoint Community Site, which will be an awesome site with some really cool features of which this is one.

I have previously tried some of the available Windows Live ID providers for SharePoint that are out there on the market and the best (previously) one is the provider from the Community Kit for SharePoint, originally developed by Keith Bunge. It has a great basic application design, but had some things that annoyed me and some things I wanted to change, therefore I created my own version, with the CKS version in mind, which I hope that you find useful.

There are a lot of features in the provider and I have some even greater plans…

All configuration done through the SharePoint web interface; Central Administration or in the sites
Forces users to register once registered
Profile information that is more community-like
Profile images
Web Parts for displaying last logged in, last registered and all users.
Users can be locked
Approval of users can be turned on
Profile changes can be published to announcement lists
Four predefined roles for permissions management

You can download it now from http://spwla.codeplex.com/, you will also find a document with installation and configuration instructions. There are a few known bugs on which I work on, but if you can spot them or others, please report an Issue on the CodePlex and if you have any suggestions I really like to hear them.

In upcoming posts I will dig into some of the features a little bit more, but until then here are some screenshots.