What is the SYNTAX for the user and group filters??? Is the HTML Ampersand token Amper A m p semicolon required in the filter

Question

There seems to be quite a bit of confusion over the actual syntax for the user and group filters on the Forms Based Authentication  Ldap Role and membership providers.. MSFT isn't really clear and there is a universal confusion in the blogsphere.
I the filters should the prefix be the ACTUAL Ampersand or the HTML token for an AMPERSAND.. I realize the in many cases the blogger might have inadvertently specified the html token when the bare naked ampersand was intended..   The question
therefore is : can a filter be taken directly from and ADSIEdit query and used as a filter or must the filter be made HTML safe by swapping out the AMERSAND with the HTML Token for AMERSAND before putting it into the configuration
for the LDAPRole/membership provider...
All science is either physics or stamp collecting

Answer 1

Hi GUYO,
I am not quite sure how we implement this on sharepoint side, as I did research and sharepoint may not have this feature to do this.
most of the LDAP for sharepoint may need to follow these steps in this article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806890(v=office.15).aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sridhara/archive/2010/01/07/setting-up-fba-claims-in-sharepoint-2010-with-active-directory-membership-provider.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaevans/archive/2013/01/31/configuring-ldap-for-fba-in-sharepoint-2010-or-sharepoint-2013-with-powershell.aspx
here is an example :
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint__cloud/archive/2011/12/20/achieving-fba-with-adlds-amp-sharepoint-2010.aspx
if should this questions was at the ADSIEdit part, perhaps you can help us by opening a new thread at the AD foum
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?category=windowsserver
Regards,
Aries
Microsoft Online Community Support
Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.