topic Re: MS Word docs open authentication popup in IE in Alfresco Forum

MS Word docs open authentication popup in IE

longinus — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 14:21:46 GMT

Hello AllI was wondering if anyone has found a workaround to the problem when Office documents stored in alfresco (5) are opened with the direct link in IE and authentication popup is opened.This is due to IE opening the MS Word app, which doesn't support authentication protocol used by alfresco. MS

Re: MS Word docs open authentication popup in IE

afaust — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 11:50:56 GMT

Is there a reason you are not using Alfresco Office Services to deal with the Microsoft Office integration? Trying to get this to work with the generic content download API (except for read-only view) is going to be a mess. All the differences between how the browsers open the Office apps are already handled, and saving back is supported out of the box.

Also, Alfresco with Kerberos enabled is fully compatible with MS Office on Windows with integrated authentication. Integrated authentication just means that WIndows / IE will use the best available authentication mechanism to pass your local user identity - based on your AD / client configuration, this is Kerberos (prefered / recommended by Microsoft) and legacy NTLMv2/NTLMv1.

Re: MS Word docs open authentication popup in IE

longinus — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 11:03:49 GMT

Here is the documentation for it : Installing and configuring Alfresco Office Services | Alfresco Documentation