Links from word documents to passworded sites failing
(the title of this post is largely for Google, so little information could we find on this bug when we searched)
Lars Pind, who develops our intranet has just deployed a fix for one of the most annoying bugs I've ever come across. If you clicked a link in a MS office document to access our intranet the intranet would ask you to log in, and then show you it's homepage.
If the link was anywhere else (a web page, an open office document...) it would ask you to log in and then show you the target page which was much more use.
The issue was down to the very odd way office handles requests - and it took Ximon several hours of looking at request logs to work out exactly what was happening. Once we had a diagnosis Lars was able to provide a fix, which he talks about on his blog.