Month: October 2007

Exchange OWA without Forms Authentication

In many organizations, Outlook Web Access is used to enable employees to view their e-mail and calendar online. In most cases, the enabled access uses Forms Authentication to display a neat Outlook login form in which users may enter their accountname and password to gain access to the web access environment. SharePoint is able to

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Obtain MS hotfix online

For some reason I always seem to lose this URL somehow. So as a reminder, and to share a bit too; here’s MS’ website for requesting hotfixes online: https://support.microsoft.com/contactus2/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1410&WS=hotfix. Saves you a call with support (and perhaps also the follow-up, I’ll report back on that later).

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Adding a task for multiple persons

A while ago, a user asked me why he wasn’t able to add a task to a default SharePoint tasklist and assign it to multiple persons. I wasn’t sure about this so I checked myself and indeed I wasn’t able to do this either. For some reason I didn’t really look too hard and didn’t found

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Job opening

As I’m writing this I’m on ‘holiday’; that is not working in the IT business. Before I started my job I was earning some money designing and operating lighting for theatre, popshows, etc. Currently I’m doing that again, and it feels good to be back! Finished the first gig yesterday where everyone was very pleased including

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