On Friday 5/2/14 at 3PM, we switched the SharePoint address extranet.dhss.alaska.gov from the old NetScaler (146.63.177.251) over to the new NetScaler (10.4.188.73). This caused a regression in the availability of login via the Extranet Manager. The problem was first reported to the SharePoint team...
We have three new pages on troubleshooting browser compatability, multiple accounts and logging in.
We've had an issue for quite some time now that prevented calendars on extranet.dhss.alaska.gov from syncronzing events created in outlook. In this post I'll be describing the issue in detail and what steps it took to remediate it. Warning, lots of techical language ahead.
After adding a...
On 2/25/14 at approximately 12:40 PM, https://extranet.dhss.alaska.gov/ went offline. After a downtime of 42 minutes, it came back online at 1:28 PM. In this post I'll be explaining what happened and how we'll be working to prevent it in the future. Warning, lots of technical language ahead.
Our big list of sites now automatically updates every 15 minutes. If you're trying to find a site but can't remember the url, take a look.
We have a new help site with links to all sorts of SharePoint resources. Check it out!
The following addresses are being removed. If you still use these to access any of our SharePont sites, please update to one of the new addreses. Otherwise, disregard.
We have a new about page that describes the different uses of SharePoint in DHSS. Take a look!
Ryan here! I have returned from vacation and am digging through emails. If you have critical issue that require my attention please contact me directly. I'll be spending this week working to get ELMO running in time for the legislature so everything else is on hold.
I will be out of the office from December 16th - January 3rd. Please send any any emails during that time to the SharePoint Team.
We have a new site request form. This sends requests directly to the SharePoint team and contains all the information we'd normally ask for. If you need a new site collection set up, please use the form instead of emailing us.
We have a new search portal for SharePoint that allows searching across all sites you have access to. It's available at https://extranet.dhss.alaska.gov/search/ and I've added a search box to https://go.dhss.ak.local/ that links to it.
I'll be disabling myAlaska authentication on our Extranet at 5PM today. The will log out anyone connected so save your changes before then.
There will be a short period of downtime on our extranet as I do some work on extending it internally.
There will be a short period of downtime on our extranet as I do some work on our myAlaska provider integration.
I'll be posting updates and news about our SharePoint servers here.