SharePoint permission problem Read Contributor permissions

I recently had the chance to work on a problem concerning permission to access a specific web page in SharePoint 2010. The error message that almost all of the users were getting was the generic “accessed denied” but using the Check permission button I could verify that the users had at least read permissions to access the site. Playing along with the permissions I noticed that users having Contributor rights were able to see the page while those with Read permissions did not. I then stumbled on this forum post which perfectly described my situation. ...

July 3, 2012 · Dragos Madarasan

Deploying Adobe Reader with Windows Intune

The other day Adobe just released an update to their flagship product Adobe Reader. While I quickly updated my installation, I decided to try the new Software Installation introduced in Windows Intune 2.0 last year and deploy the update to a couple of computers I manage. The first problem I encountered was that I couldn’t use my favorite browser and I had to use IE. When I would go to the Software tab and select the task Upload Software, my browser would download an executable and when I would try to run it I would get ...

January 13, 2012 · Dragos Madarasan