How to enable Persistent Cookies in SharePoint.

Question

Dear All,

Since from one week I am struggling with one issue.  Below is details scenario.

>> I have Sharepoint 2010 site and I have used FBA.

>> My client has office 2003 machine. When he is trying to open document from Sharepoint site , it opens login screen in word 2003.

>> I have search on Internet and I found that If I enable Persisten cookie then I will not get this error and my document will open in word 2003.

Could you please tell me how to enable persisten cookies in SharePoint.

 

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Thanks, Sachin Jagtap

Answer 1

Hope this can help

http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/index.jsp?topic=/access-gateway-91/agee-client-connect-persistent-cookies-con.html

and also see that

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932118

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Muhammad Kamran Rafi
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SharePoint Developer
Xelleration LLC

Answer 2

Besides client support, you should also make sure the authentication provider used by SharePoint also support persistent cookie, please see what follows from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288081(office.12).aspx

ASP.NET forms and Web SSO

If the following conditions are true, a persistent cookie is created: ·         The authentication provider supports persistent cookies. ·         The user clicks Sign me in automatically when they log in.

As far as i know, reverse proxy such as Forefront TMG (ISA) also provide authentication which offer persistent cookie.