Apr 15
SharePoint: Getting Documents to Open Without the Login Box Popping Up
A combination of fixes to get multiple documents WITHOUT having to login to SharePoint each time.
I thought I would share the combination of fixes that has got me running WITHOUT having to login to our portal each time I click on a document. These steps are for IE7 and Office 2007.
- Add your portal address (portal.companyname.com) to your Trusted Sites in Internet Explorer
- In IE Options – Security Tab, click Trusted Sites, then click Custom Level button.
- Scroll all the way to the bottom of the settings, and set user authentication to “Auto Logon with Current Username & Password”
- This is where it gets weird, but it works!!
- In IE Options – Connections Tab – LAN Settings, add a proxy server of “fakeproxy” on port 80 (no quotes)
- Click Advanced button, then add an exception of “*”to the exceptions list. (no quotes)
Now you will find that your local username and password are passed to the portal, and since there is some known behavior with proxies (found this in MS MOSS Blog), setting a proxy makes it think you are internally connected and it doesn’t need authentication.
Hope this helps save some more of you from the popup of the logon box BEHIND the website!!