Single sign-on for SharePoint site on windows clients

Question

Can i remove the need for windows clients to log on to SharePoint intranet sites? Sort of pushing out their group policies to allow access to certain intranet sites?

Thank B

Answer 1

You have to tell the browser (eg Internet Explorer) to automatically log the user on for your Intranet sites. Internet Explorer does this automatically for sites in the Local Intranet Zone . If you access your Intranet via intranet.company.com, IE doesn't know that it is a local Intranet site and treats it as an Internet sites, meaning it doesn't automatically log you on.

You have to manually add the respective URL as a local intranet site:

• Go to Tools > Options > Security > Local intranet > Sites > Advanced
• Add your site there eg intranet.company.com or *.company.com

You will be automatically logged into SharePoint.

The same procedure is possible for Firefox, you only have to edit the NTLM trusted Uri's in about:config . Chrome automatically uses the IE security settings.

All these settings are also deployable via group policy.