Setting Client Security
Before you can fully use SharePoint with Office, you must change security settings on your computer so that the SharePoint domain is trusted. You’ll probably also want to enable automatic log on so that SharePoint will automatically use your network log-on rather than prompting you for your user name and password. To make those changes:
1. Start Internet Explorer and choose Tools®Internet Options Security Trusted Sites Sites. Internet Explorer displays a list of the trusted sites for your computer.
2. Type the address of your SharePoint site and click Add OK. Use an asterisk to include multiple domains. For example *.somecompany.com includes extranet. somecompany.com, www. somecompany.com, and so on.
3. Click Custom Level, scroll to the bottom of the page and select Automatic logon with current user name and password. Click OK®OK to close the dialog.
Figure 1 illustrates the security settings. Step 3 prevents SharePoint from prompting for user name and password. Instead, SharePoint uses your network identity. These changes can be made for all users through group policy settings in Active Directory by your System Administrator.
Figure 1: Setting your computer’s security for SharePoint
1. Start Internet Explorer and choose Tools®Internet Options Security Trusted Sites Sites. Internet Explorer displays a list of the trusted sites for your computer.
2. Type the address of your SharePoint site and click Add OK. Use an asterisk to include multiple domains. For example *.somecompany.com includes extranet. somecompany.com, www. somecompany.com, and so on.
3. Click Custom Level, scroll to the bottom of the page and select Automatic logon with current user name and password. Click OK®OK to close the dialog.
Figure 1 illustrates the security settings. Step 3 prevents SharePoint from prompting for user name and password. Instead, SharePoint uses your network identity. These changes can be made for all users through group policy settings in Active Directory by your System Administrator.
Figure 1: Setting your computer’s security for SharePoint
Your System Administrator may have made these changes for you already, but you need to be aware of these settings if you plan on accessing SharePoint from home. You won’t be able to create workspaces and will be repeatedly prompted for your user name and password unless you make the preceding changes.
Whenever you open an Office document from SharePoint, Internet Explorer warns you that “Some file can harm your computer. If the file looks suspicious or you do not fully trust the source, do not open the file.” That warning is intended to prevent you from accidentally opening documents that contain viruses written as macros.
To turn off that warning:
1. From Windows Explorer, click Tools®Folder Options®File Types and select the DOC file type.
2. Click Advanced and deselect Confirm open after download; then click OK as shown in Figure 2.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for the Excel and PowerPoint document types.
Figure 2: Turning off warnings when opening Office documents.
Whenever you open an Office document from SharePoint, Internet Explorer warns you that “Some file can harm your computer. If the file looks suspicious or you do not fully trust the source, do not open the file.” That warning is intended to prevent you from accidentally opening documents that contain viruses written as macros.
To turn off that warning:
1. From Windows Explorer, click Tools®Folder Options®File Types and select the DOC file type.
2. Click Advanced and deselect Confirm open after download; then click OK as shown in Figure 2.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for the Excel and PowerPoint document types.
Figure 2: Turning off warnings when opening Office documents.
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