Introduction
Until a week ago I’ve been using Windows® XP as the corporate standard prescribes. But having started looking into Microsoft SharePoint 2010, I was allowed to switch to Windows® 7 x64. (The switch also included a very nice MSDN license, thus giving me access to loads of Microsoft sweetness.) The x64 stands for 64 bit of course.
The change from 32 to 64 bits went quite smooth, except for one minor hiccup. There is no 64bit client for Cisco VPN.
There are free and Open Source based VPN clients that are compatible with Cisco that have 64bit versions, but they could not be used in this case. Read more…
Introduction
A customer I’m currently doing maintenance on their major application for, had an issue come up a couple of weeks ago where not all employees were to access all data any longer. The company deals with other companies and their employees, called members. The issue that came up caused a company wide policy to come in effect that meant that only specific users were to allow members or family of members to be accessed for a certain client company.
The application in question was easily modified since it already had support for authentication, so only authorisation for that specific company had to be added. (No we weren’t allowed to create a generic solution that would allow a reusable authorisation for multiple client companies. But discussing their policies is a whole different matter.) Read more…
Categories: Software Engineering Tags: authentication, authorisation, mod_auth, mod_auth_script, mod_dav, office, php, vba, visualbasic, WebDAV, windows, word
