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I am trying to use the "Membership Site Groups" option as part of my site collection template. However, i get the "error occured" with an ? saying that the "role manager is not enabled"

 Is there better documentation on Provisioning Templates for the following

I created a new provisioning template provider using the quota. This doesnt appear when configuring new or existing profiles, I only see the ones that are mentioned above.

The provider list is cached for performance. When making changes you need to update the cache if you would like to apply your changes. This information is located at the bottom of this page ...

http://software.sharepointsolutions.com/support/knowledge/spa/Pages/spa0015.aspx

'The Provisioning Templates used by the Site Provisioning Assistant are cached. To update the active cache click the Refresh Providers menu item located under the Actions menu.'

I'll see if we can make the information more prevalent.

Regarding the installation and configuration of ExCM and the Membership Site Groups option you need to configure SharePoint for Forms-Based-Authentication (FBA).

http://software.sharepointsolutions.com/support/knowledge/excm/Pages/excm0003.aspx

This is not a trivial task. If you need assistance you can purchase an ExCM/FBA installation and configuration here...

http://shop.sharepointsolutions.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=11

Thanks, Jeremy. This resolved my issue. I did read that article but ignored the last line... Perhaps a red bold highlight

Regarding the Site Groups vs Membership Groups in the Provider Templates

What is the difference?

I was advised by Sales and a SPA Engineer, that I could setup users and groups after the site is created. I am not aware that I needed to purchase anything more than SPA to accomplish this.

A Site Group refers to SharePoint Groups associated with a SharePoint site. A Membership Group refers to a role defined by a membership provider (typically SQL Server). This configuration typically occurs when using SharePoint in an extranet scenario with Forms-Based-Authentication instead of using windows tokens. If you are not using SharePoint with Forms-Based-Authentication they you will not need to Membership Site Groups provisioning template. 

Ok that explains why I got the "Role Manager Not Enabled"

I tested it using Site Groups and got no error using the default template. I will now try to create one using the same concept, so i can see if the groups get created successfully and the users are added

Test Succesfully new custom sharepoint groups were created and existing AD users were added, because we are multiple domains here i need to prefix the domain\

Now can you tell me if i can set the owner of that group. By default it uses the application pool id that is running on the SPA site.