Simple web form that writes to a database... access web form or custom ASP.NET?

I am working in a school and we recently installed a new server running WinServer 2008R2. I want to be able to point people to a URL on our intranet and have them fill out a simple registration form and have this data written to a database. It would also be nice to have some data auto-populate (such as their name).

Is it overkill to set up a sharepoint server and try to do this with Access Webforms? Could I use something like dotnetnuke and find a module th开发者_StackOverflow中文版at works? Or how about options for writing custom forms?

Personally, I would definately not go with sharepoint for such a simple task. Besides money issues sharepoint is difficult to properly set up. Even with custom ECT's within sharepoint administration is a nightmare.

I would personally create a simple asp.net web form with some standard fields and you could use SQL Server or mySQL to push this data into a database. As for default values, that depends on how you want to set the fields, you could use windows authentication and set their user name to their NT login.

Creating a web form to fill in and collect data is not too difficult.

Have a look at http://www.asp.net/get-started. It is something you will find a lot of tutorials for. You might like to consider MySQL or SQL Server Express for your database. A Sharepoint server would definitely be overkill, unless you have some large ideas about sharing documents.

Sharepoint is way too overkill for something like this. Same for DotNetNuke or any other platform. Just do a simple ASP.NET page with an Access back end. I doubt you'll need anything bigger like SQL Server Express, although that might be a good learning experience.