In recent testing with iOS8 (specifically 8.0.2) we’ve discovered that any web application (in particular we’ve got a number of in house applications that were built using Visual Studio Lightswitch 2013) that relies on Windows Authentication (on Microsoft Internet Information Services) simply does not work. In particular users get to the login prompt screen to enter their username and password… Read more
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Deploying AirServer 1.9.6 via SCCM
Go into any school these days and it will be hard to avoid any shiny ‘iDevices’ and in support of that I have recently deployed AirServer by App Dynamic. The installer is provided as an MSI although our retailer suggested a command line option to deploy and activate the software for all users of the PC; a very nice idea there… Read more
WebDAV – Access Windows File Shares outside the firewall on any device – Part 3 – Guides + More reading
So you now have your WebDAV server setup and its time to get this out to your users. To help you along you feel free to edit the guides below to your particular requirements. For further reading take a look at the links below- Basic setup of a WebDAV site on IIS.net – http://www.iis.net/learn/install/installing-publishing-technologies/installing-and-configuring-webdav-on-iis Basic setup of WebDAV on seanashton.net… Read more
WebDAV – Access Windows File Shares outside the firewall on any device – Part 2 – The server setup
In the previous article in this series we looked at the topology needed to setup a WebDAV infrastructure. I’ll assume that You have a public DNS record which points to a IP address on your firewall which is in turn port forwarding 443 (HTTPS) to your IIS server (this also works through Web Application Proxys like the ones built into Smoothwall… Read more
WebDAV – Access Windows File Shares outside the firewall on any device – Part 1 – The basics
Every once in a while a magical bit of software comes along that makes life so very good; today that software is WebDAV and its been around so long that some people might have forgotten how good it is. The premise goes You have one or more internal Windows Server(s) which hosts users personal documents and shared drives You would… Read more