intranet

IE Securty Zone Issues

I'm developing a website which will be used in the corporate intranet which uses JCIFS and NTLM to automatically authenticate the users without asking them to log on. Everything seems to be working in IE 6, but some users are being prompted for their passwords in IE 7. We've had some success by getting the users to change their Logon...

Good reasons for not letting the browser launch local applications

Hello all, I know this might be a no-brainer, but please read on. I also know it's generally not considered a good idea, maybe the worst, to let a browser run and interact with local apps, even in a intranet context. We use citrix for home-office, and people really like it. Now, they would like the same kind of environment at work, a ...

What framework you recomend for fast secure web application development?

I need to choose a framework for a new project I will start from scratch. The application performance requirements are very low. It needs to allow fast development and enforce good development practices. The final application should be easy to deploy and handle well database migrations. The application will handle most of the time simp...

What can you do with SharePoint on Intranet?

We have had SharePoint where I work for a little while now, but we've not done a lot with it. We have an intranet with hundreds of ASP/ASP.Net applications and I'm wondering what kind of things can be done to integrate with SharePoint to make a more seamless environment? We put documentation and production move requests and so on in Shar...

Intranet Vs Internet Web application considerations

What are the differences in considerations in respect to designing or developing an Intranet and an Internet application ? ...

Windows Safari cannot access sever by NetBIOS/WINS name

Whenever I try to access a NTLM authenticated intranet site, Safari takes forever to process and then comes back with "The sever is unavailable" or if allowed by the site, loads with out authenticating. I can access these same sites with no problems in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. The sites are hosted on IIS6 and are being generat...

Intranet Uptime Monitoring Component

I have a MOSS 2007 test site, its not public facing, instead its on our intranet, I am looking for an uptime monitoring component thats free and easy to install, any suggestions? Update: I don't need graphs or anything fancy, I just need to make sure that I get a notification via email if the site goes down. ...

Best Practice for Cross-Platform Browser Testing for Intranet site for small team?

Hi, in my team usually one web developer creates the web app then does some alpha testing himself before passing the fuller testing to the only tester in the company. So you probably can guess that we don't have a lot of free pcs or resources available so we can't do the wmware or virtual pc thingy :( So based on the resources on this ...

Chrome or Firefox (or browser-agnostic) for an intranet app?

If you were designing a core business intranet app for a small business, and wanted it to be as responsive-feeling as possible, where the staff are indifferent to being stuck with a certain browser, would you design for Firefox, Chrome, or test more widely than you need to just to avoid lock-in? Are there other factors you'd consider be...

Simple login for multi-domain intranet?

I have an intranet server on a Windows domain (server is Windows 2003, IIS6, NTFS permissions). It is on the domain Domain01. I have users from two domains in the same forest that access this intranet: Domain01 and Domain02 (DCs also running Windows 2003). Currently, the users are required to login by entering either: Domain01\username o...

Is there a good Google Sites competitor?

A client of ours is a membership organization and they are looking for functionality that seems closely aligned with Google Sites capabilities. They want a system where their members can have a content managed site of their own that one or more admins can create by submitting a simple form. The member organization could then add/remo...

Should I use internal or external hosting for a PHP+MySQL company intranet?

I am developing intranet system for large company (5000-10000 employs) and i would like to hear any comments or advices from the community. The system consists of 2 parts: Main Intranet system: Based on Company local server and all access will be within company local network. Web site for company members: Company members can access fr...

Distinguish the between intranet and official IP addresses

How can I find out whether a given IP address is an official internet address or an internal intranet IP address? ...

Intranet Web Application Security

Using Active Directory / Windows Integrated authentication is a given. From a development standpoint, what is the best way to consume this? Is it through configuration? <location path="SecurePage.aspx"> <system.web> <authorization> <allow roles="MyDomain\My Secure Users" /> <deny users="*" /> </authorization> ...

Checking availability of Intranet Applications - Efficient way of doing it?

Accessing Intranet Applications We have an intranet application and users are supposed to get this intranet application launched first thing when they login (using login scripts). In order to accomplish this, we have created a HTML page which checks if the webserver is up and running by looking up a static page on the web server and if ...

Windows authentication for Intranet/Internet

I am developing an ASP.net web application for my company. Some users use this site in internal network and some will use internet site. I am usin Windows Authentication mode. I no need to prompt windows authentication mode for intranet user and prompt windows authentication mode for internet user. How can I do this. ...

advantages of .net over java in Intranet

Our company has an intranet with 30,000+ web pages and 160+ web applications. This is being used by 5000+ employees. We also have internet with 150+ Web applications and 100+ websites. Both the internet and Intranet is 7+ years and they run on classic ASP. Recently some "Technical Architects" came up with a wonderful idea of migrating...

knowledge sharing discussion forum on company intranet / network drive

I am investigating the feasibility of setting up a discussion forum / message board in my company to enable knowledge sharing etc. What are the steps involved in implementing such a solution? ...

What is the best practice for role security for an Intratnet ASP.NET/SQL2K5 environment?

Our current Intranet environment is a little outdated. The current stack has ASP.NET 1.1/2.0 applications that are querying against a SQL 2000 database. For role security, there are user groups on the servers that users are added into (so you need to be added into the group on the test and production machine). These user groups are syn...

Get the username of the user accessing ASP.NET intranet page within local network

We have an ASP.NET intranet site, available to users who are either physically at and logged into a local machine or else to users who connect remotely via VPN. Is there a way to automatically get the username of whoever is accessing the page based on the name used to either log into the local machine or that used for the VPN? ...