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Update your Agent Configuration Settings for Office Client Integration

The parameter settings in the Agent Configuration Object that is associated with your Agent for SharePoint control how Office Client Integration operates on your Agent for SharePoint.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Infrastructure, Agent Configuration, Modify Agent Configuration.
2. Click the edit button for the Agent Configuration object of your Agent for SharePoint.

   The Modify Agent Configuration: Name pane opens.

3. Change the values of the following parameters:

   SPClientIntegration

   Specifies the hostnames of the SharePoint servers that the Agent for SharePoint protects on which you want to permit Office Client Integration. The default parameter is blank and listed as plain. If there are multiple host entries, use the multivalue option button to add multiple hosts.

   Add a port number to the value if the Agent for SharePoint operates on a nondefault port (any port except 80 or 443).

   To use this parameter, verify that the SharePoint resources that CA SiteMinder protects also have their Office Client Integration enabled on the SharePoint central administration server.

   Because Office Client Integration requires a persistent FedAuth cookie, verify that your SharePoint server is not configured to use session cookies. By default, UseSessionCookies in SharePoint is set to NO.

   Default: None

   Limits: Multiple values are allowed. Use fully qualified domain names for all values.

   Example: agent_for_sharepoint_host_name.example.com (default ports of 80 or 443)

   Example: agent_for_sharepoint_host_name.example.com:81 (with a nondefault port number for HTTP)

   Example: agent_for_sharepoint_host_name.example.com:4343 (with a nondefault port number for HTTPS)

   SPDisableClientIntegration

   Specifies the hostnames of the SharePoint servers that the Agent for SharePoint protects on which you want to prohibit Office Client Integration. The default parameter is blank and listed as plain. If there are multiple host entries, then switch over to a multi—value parameter. The URL in this parameter requires a port number (even for a default port such as 80 or 443).

   This setting prevents SharePoint administrators from circumventing CA SiteMinder settings regarding Office Client integration.

   Limit: Multiple values are allowed.

   Example: agent_for_sharepoint_host_name:port_number

4. The following parameter describes the user agent values to which the Agent for SharePoint permits access:

   SPAuthorizeUserAgent

   Specifies a list of Microsoft Office user-agent strings for which the Agent for SharePoint allows access. This list is populated automatically with the default values when the Agent for SharePoint starts. The user-agent strings in this parameter act as a whitelist. Changes to this parameter override the default settings. Access is denied to clients whose user-agent string does not appear in the list.

   For example, setting the value to Microsoft Office allows access to all versions of Microsoft Office products that are associated with that user-agent string. Conversely, setting the value to Microsoft Office/12.0 allows access to only those versions of Microsoft Office products that are associated with that user-agent string.

   Default: Microsoft Office, MS FrontPage, MSFrontPage, Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider Protocol Discovery, Test for Web Form Existence, Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir

   Limits: Multiple values are allowed.

5. Examine the default values of the previous parameter. Ask your SharePoint or IIS web server administrator if more user-agent values are required.

   Note: Microsoft (not CA Technologies) defined the user-agent strings in the previous parameter. For more information about these user-strings, search the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) library website for information about the user-string that you want.

6. Change the value of the CSSChecking parameter to no.

   Note: Because the Agent for SharePoint is a proxy-based solution, this setting is required for Office Client Integration.

7. Click OK.

   The new values appear next to the parameters in the list.

8. Click Submit.

   The Create Agent Configuration Task is submitted for processing and the confirmation message appears.