I have a SharePoint farm where I use the aspnet membership provider. Now and again I need to remove users due to separations, change of job, etc. so they can’t access SharePoint.
Like all of you I have to research this thing anew every time I have to do this. But no more! My future self will thank me.
Using the aspnet_Users_DeleteUser stored proc we can remove users via SSMS.
USE [database name] EXEC [dbo].[aspnet_Users_DeleteUser] @ApplicationName = '[Application Name]', @UserName = '[Username]', @TablesToDeleteFrom = 15, @NumTablesDeletedFrom = 0 GO
@TablesToDeleteFrom can be a bit confusing when you open the stored proc up. It’s actually a bit mask. I typically have to remove users entirely so I use 15, but this blog post details out some additional options for that parameter: http://vsproblemssolved.blogspot.com/2007/01/using-sqlmembershipprovider.html
@NumTablesDeletedFrom is an input/output variable, meaning anything you put in there will get replaced by 0 in the query. You can use that parameter to inspect the output but I’m not that ambitious.
