I for one am a fan of results over talk.  If youve got time to talk and can back that up with a result then Im all ears.  Instead of more discussion, I am working together with MGF [ and anyone else who wants to join in] to produce an Alpha 4 CPP.  This cpp will allow for the community [ and anyone really] to test Rainbow with membership.  I would like to hear from the community on their concerns and their test.  We will then take these concerns, compromise and make an official alpha 4  that will be placed in devInt.    This preview release will have issues of course, but they are minor in the overall goal.  The overall goal is to get membership working in rainbow that supports SSO, multi-tenacy, multiportal and all applications that support ASPNETDB.  Keep in mind that the below screenshot if from a build 2 weeks ago that already satisfies these conditions.  I have finally fought Vista [ thanks Microsoft for your help] and won to get rainbow to load at least in cassani.  I am now going to do a test with  IIS7 that has new requirements.  I want to release the latest version from the MGF sandbox as a preview and got this version[pictured] to work in order to form a starting point.  This version however does use complete membership and only lacks the new QA they did for the past two weeks.  In conclusion, the community will benifit from the most up to date version.

Alpha 4 CPP w/ ASPNETDB | SQL Express w/ Advanced Features


 SQL Management Express showing ASPNETDB :

 
I would also like to highlight MGF's Web parts also : here I keep getting on him about making a blog...sigh...:)