sharepoint-2013

SharePoint http to https redirect

Arjan Cornelissen
?For a customer I was building a SharePoint farm on Windows Azure. The SharePoint environment should be available only thru HTTPS. But for the user this was hard because they never type https in front of the URL so we had to redirect the http calls to https. After looking around on the internet I have found a very easy solution with SharePoint AAM. The only thing you have to do is create in the same zone an extra internal url that is pointing to the http address and add an extra binding in IIS for the front-end machine.

Sign in as a different user

Arjan Cornelissen
In the previous versions of SharePoint we always had the option to sign in as a different user. since SharePoint 2013 we only have the option to sign out.? For the majority of users this is no problem at all because they only have 1 account to log in, but for an administrator this can be a issue as they usually have a separate administrator account. To solve this we have a few options: