sharepoint and office 2007

[Matt85]

Has anyone used both of these together? Everytime I or another employee opens a file in office from sharepoint it brings up the user authentication box. Is that a setting in office I can change? It should authenicate automatically. Also the employees complain about everytime they want to change an office setting the same user authentication box appears.

Matthew McGowan
Reynolds Park

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[markdmac]

It is normal unfortunately. I would estimate I enter my password between 20-40 times a day because I have to access so many Share-Point sites, each managed by different groups etc.

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[Matt85]

how could that be normal? in office 2003 everything uses windows authentication. why would they take it a step backwards? are you sure there is not some kind of add-in for sharepoint i need to install?

Matthew McGowan
Reynolds Park

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[markdmac]

None that I am aware of. Personally ever since I went to Office 2007 and Vista which coincided with SharePoint 3.0 implementations, I get challenged constantly. Even after checking the "remember my credentials" box which seems to do nothing now. It is very frustrating.

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Mark

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[markdmac]

Looks like I found the answer to this.

Add the sites to your trusted sites and edit the Custom Security Zone for trusted sites. Enable the following:

Internet Options -> Security -> Trusted Sites -> Custom Level -> Automatic Logon with current username and password

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Mark

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[Matt85]

I will try that out. Thank you so much.

Matthew McGowan
Reynolds Park

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[markdmac]

Trust me, I am equally happy to have found a solution. It was driving me totally nuts. Now I have to add a bunch of sites to my trusted sites.

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Mark

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[ShackDaddy]

You may also be able to look into the "Single Sign-On" featue of WSS 3.0 for some help, but it seems like most of the issues should be covered by the strategy that Mark mentioned.

It might also be worth check to see if you could auto-populate that setting with Group Policy for your domain as well as add the required internal sites to each user's trusted sites list. You don't want to do this sort of thing manually for a crowd if you can help it.

ShackDaddy
Shackelford Consulting

 

[markdmac]

Shackdaddy, I was thinking the same thing and am planning on adding my own sites via VBScript.

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Regards,

Mark

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[Matt85]

unfortunately i'm not having any luck getting this to work. I enabled the "enable automatic logon only on intranet zone" under Vista GPO->Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->Internet Explorer->Internet Control Panel->Security Page->Intranet Zone->Logon Options and that did not seems to the at all. I also looked on the local computer to see if it was enabled and it was. I also added companyweb to the trusted sites and enabled the same option locally and it still did not work. It seems as if it may have to do with Office 2007 because the box doesn't come up until Word is open.

Matthew McGowan
Reynolds Park

http://www.reynoldspark.com

 

[markdmac]

You need to add the server to the Intranet Sites List since you set the property for autologon in that zone.

Right now you have the site in Trusted Sites but that zones security is probably set to prompt for credentials.

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Regards,

Mark

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[Matt85]

i tried it marks why too and it didn't work for me. do i need to add companyweb or the name of the server "reynolds"?

Matthew McGowan
Reynolds Park

http://www.reynoldspark.com

 

[markdmac]

add

http://companyweb

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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[Matt85]

i did that no luck. does it do it when you open a file off the companyweb in word 2007?

Matthew McGowan
Reynolds Park

http://www.reynoldspark.com

 

[markdmac]

No, I have added the sites to my intranet zone and specified to pass credentials on for that zone. That was enough to resolve the issue for me.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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