Method 1: Settings in IIS Manager1. Grant permissions to the Domain Users group for your BP Web Site through Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) by following these steps:
a. Log onto the Business Portal (BP) Web Server running IIS. b. In the Control Panel, open Administrative Tools, and then click IIS Manager.
c. In the IIS Manager window, expand Web Sites.
d. Right-click your BP Web Site, and then click Permissions.
e. In the Security window, you should have a "Users" group similiar to (XXXXX\Users)Note XXXXX is a placeholder for the domain name)If this group does not exist, add the domain group.
2. Grant Integrated Windows Authentication for your BP Web Site through IIS by following these steps:
a. Log onto the BP Web Server running IIS.
b. In the Control Panel, open Administrative Tools, and then click IIS Manager.
c. In the IIS Manager window, expand Web Sites.
d. Right-click your BP Web Site, and then click Properties.
e. Click the Directory Security tab.
f. In the Authentication and access control area, click Edit.
g. In the Authenticated access area, click to mark the Integrated Windows authentication check box.
h. In the Authenticated access area, make sure the Basic authentication check box is unmarked.
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To check Basic Authentication for IIS 7.0, use these steps:
a. On the workstation where Business Portal (BP) is installed, navigate to IIS Manager. To do this, click
Start, click
Control Panel, click
Administrative Tools, and then double-click
Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
b. In the
Connections section in the left-margin, click to expand the appropriate connection site.
c. Click to expand
Sites.
d. Right-click
Business Portal (which may be under the Sharepoint site), and then click
Switch to Features View.
e. In the Features View, you will see sections labeled ASP.NET and IIS. In the
IIS section, double-click
Authentication.
f. Click to select
Basic Authentication.
g. In the right-hand margin under
Actions, click
Disable. (Note: If only 'Enable' is listed, then it already is disabled.)
h. Close the windows.
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3. Reset IIS. To do this, click
Start, click
Run, type
IISRESET in the Open field, and then click
OK to process.
4. Test again. If you still have the same problem, have a different user attempt to access the Vacation Request Options window from their Outlook Profile and see if they are able to access.
NOTE: Make sure Microsoft Outlook is installed as the MAPI compliant email system.
If this method does not work, then proceed to Method 2.
Method 2: Settings in Internet Explorer1. In Internet Explorer, click
Tools, click
Internet Options, and then click to select the
Advanced Tab. Under the
Security section, make sure the
Enable Integrated Windows Authentication is marked.
2. Add the BP URL to the Trusted Sites.
Method 3: Verify/test that you can browse to the URL shown in the Vacation Request Options in Outlook1. After the Add-In is installed, open Outlook. Click
Tools, click
Vacation Request Options, and then click the
Connection tab. Note the URL listed at the bottom of the window. This is the path that you will need to browse to using these steps. The following is an example of the URL:
http://localhost/BusinessPortal/Applications/HRM/VacationRequestWebService.asmx
(Note If you typed a Host Name, then it will replace the 'localhost' in this URL.)
2. Go to the server where BP is installed. Click
Start, click
Administrative Tools, and then click
Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
3. Click to expand the database connection in the left margin.
4. Click to expand
Sites, click to expand
Business Portal, click to expand
Business Portal again, click
Applications, and then click the
HRM folder. (Basically browse out to the same URL as you see in the Vacation Request Options window. Your steps/location to browse to may be different than what is listed in this example.)
5. Click
Content View at the bottom of the window to view the files in the HRM folder.
6. Scroll down to find
VacationRequestWebService.asmx. Right-click it, and then click
browse. A VacationRequestWebService window should open up. It is important that it opens the web service window here.
7. If the web service window opens, note the URL at the top of the page. The URL listed in the Vacation Request Options window should match this URL exactly.