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Verify your Office Client Integration Settings

The SiteMinder Agent for SharePoint supports the Office Client Integration feature of Microsoft SharePoint. Unless your SharePoint server is behind a reverse proxy server, the Agent for SharePoint automatically determines whether or not Office Client Integration is allowed according to the setting in the SharePoint Central Administration UI. For reverse proxy servers, you must add the web applications you want to protect to the Agent Configuration object manually.

When Office Client Integration is allowed, the Agent for SharePoint places a persistent cookie, named SPSESSION on the hard disk of the user. This cookie allows users to access Office documents on the SharePoint server without challenging them for their credentials again (until the SiteMinder session associated with the SPSESSION cookie expires).

Note: If the security policy of your organization prohibits persistent cookies, you can still use Office Client Integration with the SiteMinder Agent for SharePoint in some limited situations.

To verify your office client integration settings

1. Click Start, Programs, Microsoft Office Server, SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.

   The Central Administration screen appears.

2. Click Application Management.

   The Application Management screen appears.

3. Click Authentication Provider.

   The Authentication Providers screen appears.

4. Verify that the URL of the web application for which you want to enable Office Client Integration appears in the Web Application: drop-down list (upper-right corner).
5. Under the zone column, click the name of the zone associated with the web application you want.

   The Edit Authentication screen appears.

6. In the Client Integration section, verify that the Yes option button is selected, as shown in the following illustration:

   

7. Do one of the following tasks:
   • If the Enable Client Integration was already set to yes, then click Cancel.
   • If you changed the Enable Client Integration setting from no to yes, then click Save.
8. Repeat Steps 4 through 7 for all other web applications for which you want to allow Office Client Integration.

More information:

Office Client Integration without a Persistent Cookie

Enable Office Client Integration for a Reverse Proxy