in reply to another perl and outlook question

The issue here is how IIS operates on the web page.

The CONTEXT of the web page is usually ANONYMOUS, , wihch on IIS maps to a user-id like IUSER_<computername>.

Hence, when someone opens the page (unless the IIS security is configured otherwise), the page runs under the IUSER user name, which may not (usually does not) have a MAIL profile associated with it.

The trick is to make the page run under the context you want - this is an IIS property for the directory or the specific web page. Do NOT allow anonymous. You can use "Integrated" authentication if this is an intranet app.

The other key issue is that the person whose context the page runs under - must have an Outlook profile defined ON THE IIS SERVER.. All this means is that you must have outlook run at least once as that user, on that server.

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Re: Re: another perl and outlook question
by primus (Scribe) on Jun 10, 2003 at 18:52 UTC
    okay, so if i use integrated authentication, then DOMAIN\jsmith would have to have a profile for outlook, and also DOMAIN\mdoe would need a seperate profile? is there a way some everyone uses the same calendar?
      If you're using Exchange Server, yes. I suppose there may be a way to have a shared calendar without using Exchange, but I'm not sure how to do it.

      mike
Re: Re: another perl and outlook question
by primus (Scribe) on Jun 13, 2003 at 15:23 UTC
    as a note to this. integreted authentication is does work to read the calendar over the web, but is there a way to pass a different set of credentions directly to outlook when it tries to connect?

    because, only the user DOMAIN\jsmith can access it over the web... because his credentials are DOMAIN\jsmith, and say that the calendar was created under him... so he has a PST file in Docs and Settings\jsmith\Local Settings\Application Data\Outlook and since he has that file he can access it, but i tried to make the pst file in the all users folder, or default user's folder on the server, would something like this work? or does anyone know how?

    thanks alot monks