{"id":16,"date":"2007-09-24T14:52:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T12:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsiegmund.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/24\/alternate-access-mappings\/"},"modified":"2013-04-18T18:56:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:56:55","slug":"alternate-access-mappings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/2007\/09\/alternate-access-mappings\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternate Access Mappings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After installing and setting up a MOSS environment, we want to make sure our users have easy access. Most of the times the computername is selected by some network administrator and doesn&#8217;t match what we think is easy. Adding a DNS records and alternate access mappings can solve this problem if installed the right way.<\/p>\n<p>This can be\u00a0done\u00a0like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setup a DNS record to forward a friendly name like sharepoint.company.com to the IP address of your server.<\/li>\n<li>Add an &#8216;alternate access mapping&#8217; to the new dns name in SharePoint. This is done via the &#8216;Alternate access mappings&#8217; menu item which\u00a0is found under &#8216;Global Configuration&#8217; on the Operations page of the Central Administration Pages.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure IE knows this page is on the intranet if it&#8217;s asking for login data in a prompt (which you don&#8217;t want I presume). I didn&#8217;t know this, but adding the site to the &#8216;trusted sites&#8217; list isn&#8217;t the correct solution: you really have to add it to the &#8216;intranet&#8217; category.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After these 3 steps, users should be able to visit your sharepoint site via <a href=\"http:\/\/sharepoint.company.com\/\">http:\/\/sharepoint.company.com<\/a> without receiving a login prompt (when visited internally offcourse; this doesn&#8217;t apply for internet connections).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After installing and setting up a MOSS environment, we want to make sure our users have easy access. Most of the times the computername is selected by some network administrator and doesn&#8217;t match what we think is easy. Adding a DNS records and alternate access mappings can solve this problem if installed the right way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3KFR1-g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}