I'm sure we here at my day job aren't the only ones who are using Ray Camden's Canvas Wiki and wish that those who author and edit pages within it didn't have to type their names in every time. Well leave it to my brilliant coworker Doug Sims to have implemented a slick, surgical way to incorporate both security and automatically capture the correct author/editor. The basic steps are:

1. Enable IIS Challenge/Response on the web directory where Wiki lives;
2. Modify one line in one file of the Wiki

Okay, if you have to do it yourself (and don't have a shining infrastructure department who manages your web servers), enabling security on the wiki directory is a snap.

• Go to the IIS Admin, navigate to your wiki directory, right click and click Properties.
• Click the Directory Security tab, then click the Edit button in the "Authentication and access control" section.
• In the "Authentication Methods" window, uncheck the "Enable Anonymous acess" box and make sure that "Integrated Windows authentication IS checked.
• Hit 'Okay', then 'Apply' and close out the IIS admin.

Screenshot of the IIS Admin:

Whenever a user navigates to the wiki web directory now, they will be asked for their username and password (it'll be the same one they use to log into their machine on the network). They may also have to append the network domain name to their username, as in the following example where user 'DBoude' is on the BPL domain: BPL\DBoude

For step 2, open the wiki template Views/dsp.edit.cfm. Somewhere around line 50 to 59, find the table row for author, and change it to this:

That's it!