.NET CMS with custom authentication

I know there's tons of questions about .NET based CMS out there, but I have some specifics things I'm looking for.

1) Be able to leverage our application's existing authentication (We have our own implementation of of `System.Web.Security.MembershipProvider` as well as `MembershipUser`)

2) Be able to restrict who can view certain pages/segments based on our custom roles, in addition to restrictions on who can edit them.

Maybe most of them support this, but I haven't had much luck finding which ones specifically satisfy these requirements.

(Being lightweight is also a plus, I've read about Orchard and N2)

[EPiServer][1] is a commercial ASP.NET based CMS. It is essentially a set of .NET assemblies that you reference and build into your ASP.NET application to turn it into a first class CMS.

It makes use of standard ASP.NET features like the provider model so you can swap bits out.

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I don't know how much this will help you but here goes. We did a search last year for .NET content management systems and I wasn't super thrilled. There are a ton of commercial systems that are really expensive and appear to be crap.

I checked out N2 first. It seemed really clean, but it was way too barebones for our purposes. We would have had to do a ton of custom development to meet our needs. It's really a CMS framework instead of a CMS product.

Umbraco was the other system we took a serious look at. It has a lot more features built in and it's a fairly nice system as long as you don't mind a little XSLT. It does use the standard membership provider framework, so that's in your favor. I don't really know whether the roles will do what you want though. But since it's free you can play with it to see if it meets your needs.

As for Orchard, I don't know much about it. It wasn't around when we were looking, but it seems interesting. I couldn't tell in a reasonable amount of time how it handles membership and roles on the back end. It does seem like it's geared towards smaller sites, so it might be a little limiting in that respect.

We've been using Telerik's [Sitefinity][1] product with custom forms authentication. You can use forms authentication out of the box or you can customise it. It does make use of the provider model too.

More information [on custom authentication can be found here][2].


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I would suggest looking into AxCMS (at AxCMS.net). It is complete, pluggable and has extensive documentation. Specific documentation about their implementation of Membership and Security is available at :

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Microsoft's Scott Gu recommends it here at

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