intranet

What technology stack would you recommend for an data-entry intensive intranet application using Microsoft tools (asp.net mvc OR silverlight)?

I am looking out for suggestions regarding development of a data-entry intensive application for an intranet. What technology would you suggest for the same on the Microsoft Platform? I am not looking at smart client options. This is basically browser based application. Current stack which I have in mind is ASP.NET MVC + JQUERY ASP...

Externally hosted intranet authentication

Hi there, I'm investigating the possibilities of building a company intranet on an external Linux/Apache server (LAMP stack). I'd like to be able to restrict access to just internal company computers (and with no explicit login required). All internal traffic goes through a proxy server, but it is an external third-party proxy which is...

Should an intranet web application utilize a CDN

With the Announcement of the Microsoft AJAX CDN a debate arouse this morning about whether utilizing a public CDN for common libraries was a good idea for intranet applications. I can see both sides of the argument but without revealing too much of our discussion I wanted to put forth the topic on Stack Overflow to see other's opinions. ...

ASPX page renders differently when reached on intranet vs. internet?

This is so odd to me.. I have IIS 5 running on XP and it's hosting a small ASP.Net app for our LAN that we can access by using the computer name, virtual directory, and page name (http://matt/smallapp/customers.aspx), but you can also hit that IIS server and page from the internet because I have a public IP that my firewall routes to the...

Which open-source git hosting software should I install on my company's intranet?

Instead of hosting my company's source code on Github, I would like to host it on our intranet under our control. What software could I use to simulate the same kinds of Git-based source-control features that are offered by sites like Github? Ideally this solution would be associated with a Ruby-based web application. ...

Leading DotNetNuke news and forum modules?

I'm in the position of having to either recommend an existing or develop a custom news and forum module for a DotNetNuke installation. Both modules need to have the features you'd expect from such a module. Quite an open set of requirement, but that's all I have so far. I've been brought in to rescue an Intranet redevelopment project wh...

Authenticate against ldap using PHP, active directory, while using IE/Firefox

This code below checks for the user's credentials against ldap <?php $ldaphost = "ldap.domain.com"; $ldapport = 389; $ds = ldap_connect($ldaphost, $ldapport) or die("Could not connect to $ldaphost"); if ($ds) { $username = "[email protected]"; $upasswd = "pass"; $ldapbind = ldap_bind($ds, $username, $upasswd); if (...

Web Applications Image Store

Hello, My organization currently uses a customized solution of a portal application which is used both as a Knowledge Management Portal and an intranet solution. The problem is this - All the images used in the application are stored in a folder called the image-store which resides in my search server rather than my web-server. Whe...

Retrieving the Windows username from a logged-in machine through an intranet application.

How can an application, running on a production server, access the login username of the machine that a user is accessing an application from? For example, I am currently logged into my machine on the INTRA corporate intranet. My username will be INTRA\Username. I have added specific usernames to a database and wish to check this in...

Java: Can a desktop App log-in in a web app and retrieve a "session" object to authenticate itseft in other apps which trust the web app?

I don't know if this question has any sense, but this is what my boss want. I work in a company with an intranet web. In my department we have developed an application wich connects to a Bussiness Object server and executes and prints reports. This is a regular client/server app with our own user/password manintenance to log in. My b...

Intranet and IE8 render mode

I want IE8 to render my site without compatibility mode, the site runs on our company intranet. Is there a way to to this without sending out a GP update. I've tried <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8"/> in the header and the document type is <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.or...

User Generated Hyperlinks to Files Hosted on a Network Share

My ultimate goal is to allow users to select a file from a dialog as if they are uploading a file. Instead of file being saved to the server, a hyperlink will be generated from the file's path. This hyperlink will then be used on our intranet page in order to open the file located on our network share. Is there any practical way to ac...

Launch local folder from XPSP2+ / IE8

Hi All, We've got an intranet which normally serves all info/documents that appl to the whiole company (employee handbooks, minutes, etc...) Most of these work by having the web server parse a folder and present the files to the user. The problem in this case is that the latest folder is restricted to cerain users. As Kerberos is not ...

Free Intranet website to share data across the organization

Hi, In our organization we don’t have any intranet website to share the data/information across the organization. The information could be: HR Related Information [E.g.: HR Policies, Company Events etc., New Joiner’s Information etc. etc.] Application Developments Related Information [E.g.: How to build a program on Catchin...

CMS/Intranet file upload system

In my attempts to write a CMS or intranet system, I need the ability to upload files to a "workspace", which is permissions based. Now I can sort the permissions out, however, I am struggling a bit with the file upload itself. Basically, such as a VLE, let's say I am a manager. I want to upload a file for those in my department to see...

What is the best strategy to combine IntrAnet and Web-exposed website?

I was wondering if somebody has some insight on this issue. A little background: We've been using Rails to migrate from an old dBase and Visual Basic based system to build internal company IntrAnet that does things like label printing, invetory control, shipping, etc - basically an ERP The Dilemma Right now we need to replace an old ...

Sharepoint intranet portal

Migrating (rewriting) a whole portal originally made in .net to shareopoint doesn't seem like a very easy thing to do. I've been assigned such task and now i'm just learning, planning and starting to get things practical in order to accomplish it faster. It's not exactly a question, it should be a discussion about it and may help others...

intranet chat application using java

Any help would be great please..! How to build an intranet chat application using java which includes transform of files like gtalk? where to start the process? what all the sw requirements? ...

Newbie Question about Web Content Display and Templates

Hello, Im using Liferay Portal v5.2.3 Community Edition. I have the following two questions which i hope someone would be kind enough to answer. 1.) I want to add some content to the About Us Page of my intranet portal. I added Web Content Display portlet, and maximized the screen after adding content. But accessing the portal, it alwa...

Recommended packages for Intranet Analytics?

Hi, I'm looking for someone who can provide some information on analytics for an intranet site. The intranet site has limited access to the internet and ideally there should be no tranmission of analytics information externally. Are there any open source or else well constructed analytics packages that I can consider for this purpose?...