Role provider not working with SQL Server Enterprise - sql

I am getting the following error,
The user instance login flag is not supported on this version of SQL Server. The connection will be closed.
from the below line of code in my razor view(MVC5)
#if(Roles.IsUserInRole("User"){}
I have upgraded my database sql server from Express 2012 to Enterprise 2012 edition . After that I got above error. Since my application is EF code-first, database is created automatically but role provider doesn't seem to be working.
<add name="Foo" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=Foo_db;User ID=sa;Password=******" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

Check out this thread. It should help.
http://forums.asp.net/t/1939748.aspx
I have tested this, User.IsInRole is now working for me. Make sure you have this in your Startup class

Did you remember to put the application name in your web config?
<roleManager enabled="true">
<providers>
<clear />
<add connectionStringName="ApplicationServices"
name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider"
type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider"
applicationName="DONT FORGET THIS PART" />
</providers>
</roleManager>

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Failed login for user

I'm developing a website for sharepoint using asp.net, it is connected to a database. In visual studio server explorer, the database is accessible using a new sql user I created. I granted sysadmin permissions to that user. However, when I deploy the site and run it, it gives me this error 'login failed for user'.
The sql server is configured to allow mixed authentications. I restarted the server, I played with the user permissions but nothing ever changed.
The connection string I got it from server explorer which I'm sure it is correct:
Data Source=servertest;Initial Catalog=qDB;User ID=me2;Password=***********"
What should I do? I've tried every possible solution I found on google and I ended up here.
Try like this by editing your connection string:-
Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;User Id=myUsername; Password=myPassword;
I too had same scenario this worked for me
<connectionStrings>
<add name="connectionstring" connectionString="Data Source=XYZ\SHAREPOINT;Initial Catalog=DBName;Integrated Security=true;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>
You can Use connection string like this
<appSettings>
<add key="KhadamatConnectionString"
value="Server=[copy name from Your ServerName of SSMS];Database=AcaService;uid=admin;pwd=mypass;" />
</appSettings>
or
<connectionStrings>
<add name="KhadamatConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=[copy name from Your ServerName of SSMS];Initial Catalog=AcaService;User ID=admin;Password=mypass;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
</connectionStrings>

Authentication with Azure Active Directory : WIF10201 Error

I'm trying to add Azure Authentication to an existing website with Visual Studio 2013. It looks like this used to be a bit easier in 2012 but seems the recommended path for 2013 is to set this up when creating the project.
I created a new project with AAD (which works) to compare to the changes being made to the project I need to add authentication to. I copied the authentication classes and config settings but it still seems like there is something wrong in web.config:
For AppSettings I have:
<add key="ida:FederationMetadataLocation" value="https://login.windows.net/_____/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml" />
<add key="ida:Realm" value="https://AADPath/Application" />
<add key="ida:AudienceUri" value="https://AADPath/Application" />
For System.identityModel I have:
<system.identityModel>
<identityConfiguration>
<issuerNameRegistry type="RegistryClassPath, ProjectName" />
<audienceUris>
<add value="https://AADPath/Application"/>
</audienceUris>
<securityTokenHandlers>
For system.identityModel.services I have:
<federationConfiguration>
<cookieHandler requireSsl="true" />
<wsFederation passiveRedirectEnabled="true"
issuer="https://login.windows.net/AADPath/wsfed"
realm="https://AADPath/Application"
requireHttps="true" />
When I run the site, I'm redirected to the login page as I expect but after logging in I'm presented with the WIF10201: No valid key mapping found for securityToken error.
It was not the configuration but rather I didn't copy the data from the embedded database to the existing project. All seems to be working now.

how to handle database reallocation for dotnetnuke website

i have a website that used to run on sqlexpress data base i changed my server and it stopped running i ran it using visual studi and IIS but it eith gives me error 404 or error 503 i think the problem is in my webconfig sql string connection her is my code:
<connectionStrings>
<add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=ULTRA; User ID=admin;Password=123" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
<add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Server=(local);Database=DotNetNuke;uid=;pwd=;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
-->
<!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2008/2012 Express -->
<!--<add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=ULTRA; User ID=admin;Password=123" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />-->
<!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2008/2012
-->
<!--<add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Server=(local);Database=DotNetNuke;uid=;pwd=;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />-->
</connectionStrings>
<appSettings>
<!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2008/2012 Express - kept for backwards compatability - legacy modules -->
<!--<add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True" />-->
<!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2008/2012 - kept for backwards compatability - legacy modules
-->
<add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Server=(local);Database=DotNetNuke;uid=;pwd=;" />
would someone please help me to tell me what is wrong?
You have your connection string defined multiple times in the ConnectionStrings section of the web.config. Which is the proper connection string?
EDIT:
You likely have an issue with the PortalAliases and your IIS configuration. What is the URL that you are trying to access the website using? Make sure that URL is listed in the PortalAliases table, also make sure that IIS will respond to the URL as well.

"The Role Manager feature has not been enabled" - Accessing SimpleMembership from external web service

Hoping you may be able to help with a peculiar issue I'm facing with my SimpleMembershipProvider.
I have an MVC4 application that uses the SimpleMembership feature to store user and role information. This all works perfectly from the front end MVC4 application.
We also have a web service which will call the same SimpleMembershipProvider to validate the user credentials from a mobile app using the standard ValidateUser() method.
However, before I get to my ValidateUser() method I need to initialise my WebSecurity object using the WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection method. This is causing the below error:
"The Role Manager feature has not been enabled."
I'm initialising the WebSecurity object within the services startup, using the same code pulled from my Portal:
if (!WebSecurity.Initialized)
{
WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection("PortalContext", "UserProfile", "UserId", "UserName", autoCreateTables: true);
}
I've checked that my web.config of my web service contains the appSettings key
<add key="enableSimpleMembership" value="true" />
I've also included the rolemanager and membership details within my system.web section of my web.config.
<roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="SimpleRoleProvider">
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="SimpleRoleProvider" type="WebMatrix.WebData.SimpleRoleProvider, WebMatrix.WebData" />
</providers>
</roleManager>
<membership defaultProvider="SimpleMembershipProvider">
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="SimpleMembershipProvider" type="WebMatrix.WebData.SimpleMembershipProvider, WebMatrix.WebData" />
</providers>
</membership>
I'm now completely at a loss and have spent all morning googling for a possible solution.
Can anyone think of a reason why this might be occurring?
If you have multiple projects in the same solution and are using migrations, make the as the startup project the one containing the migrations (in Solution Explorer, Right click Project name > "Set as startup project") before running database-update.

upload ASPNETDB.mdf to shared hosting?

I am developing asp.net mvc2 application and I use asp.net membership provider which uses ASPNETDB.mdf database. I have also my own database and now I wonder how to upload these 2 databases to server? Should I upload them as .mdf file or should I use SQL server? I prefer using SQL server and if someone knows the shortest way to convert and upload these 2 databases it would help me a lot.
Thanks in advance,
Ilija
Funny I just finished doing the same thing. The basic steps are as follows:
From Visual Studio, load your .mdf and choose "publish to provider" to make a .sql file.
Open SQL Management Studio, open a connection to your database and load the sql file. Add a "use yourdbname;" on top to have it output the tables to your database, then run it.
Now you should have the full table structure. What's left is to modify web.config to read the new tables:
First the membership provider:
<membership>
<providers>
<clear/>
<add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"
type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a "
connectionStringName="ConnectionStringLoginInfo"
enablePasswordRetrieval="false"
enablePasswordReset="true"
requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
requiresUniqueEmail="false"
passwordFormat="Hashed"
maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5"
minRequiredPasswordLength="6"
minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
passwordAttemptWindow="10"
passwordStrengthRegularExpression=""
applicationName="/"
/>
</providers>
</membership>
Now the role provider:
<roleManager enabled="true">
<providers>
<clear/>
<add name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider"
type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a "
connectionStringName="ConnectionStringLoginInfo"
applicationName="/"
/>
</providers>
</roleManager>
And lastly the WebPart provider, if you use it:
<webParts>
<personalization defaultProvider="SqlDatabaseProviderDRDBLoginInfo">
<providers>
<clear/>
<add connectionStringName="ConnectionStringLoginInfo"
type="System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.SqlPersonalizationProvider"
name="SqlDatabaseProviderDRDBLoginInfo"/>
</providers>
</personalization>
</webParts>
In this example I called the connection string ConnectionStringLoginInfo, but whatever you name it, make sure you set it in the connection strings part. Not gonna paste that too :)
This all took me way more than I care to say, but when I saw my app working flawlessly with the App_Data folder deleted, that was quite the moment!
Your simplest option for a hosted solution (i.e. your hosting plan is not a Virtual Private Server) is to generate SQL scripts of your database, exporting these to *.sql files and then run them in your hosted SQL connection.
I would normally connect to my web host's SQL instance using SQL Server Management Studio and either open or paste in the scripts generated by my local copy.
Depending on whether or not your web host provides the service, you might also be able to use the "Publish to provider..." option in Visual Studio.
As a supplement to Blindy's answer I wanted to mention that another way to configure the providers is to change the connection string settings of the default ConnectionString used by most of the providers, which is LocalSqlServer. To do this you just override that particular ConnectionString in your web.config like so:
<connectionStrings>
<clear />
<add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="change this to be the details of your host database" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>
Also, if you don't want to clear the entire connectionStrings section you can just remove the particular connection string like this:
<connectionStrings>
<remove name="LocalSqlServer" />
<add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="change this to be the details of your host database" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>
This works, because all providers that default to using Sql Server for their Data Store - such as the membership provider - use the "LocalSqlServer" connection string by default. Thus, if you override it, you don't have to change each provider to point to a different Connection String.
Also, for security reasons, you might want to look into encrypting the connectionString section of your web.config file. The following two articles provide more info.
Encrypting and Decrypting Configuration Sections
How To: Encrypt Configuration Sections in ASP.NET 2.0 Using RSA