Sean Wallbridge
I hear this all the time. Folks are tired of having to repeatedly enter their usernames and passwords, when connecting to their SharePoint site, or opening/saving Word and other documents in SharePoint document libraries.
The simple fact is, if this is your YOUR SharePoint site, you should TRUST it. And you tell your browser you TRUST your SharePoint site, by ensuring the IE (Internet Explorer) Security Zone for it is set to the ‘Intranet Zone’.
This is a positive in two scenarios
- Domain/Trusted Windows Workstation – your domain already has a ‘trust’ with your workstation, therefore IE just ‘passes’ along your credentials, when the site is in the Intranet Zone
- Non Trusted Windows Workstation – even in situations where the workstation isn’t in the domain, the Intranet Zone has a setting for ‘remembering’ your username and password for you and will do so.
One final/closing note. You need to ensure the Intranet Zone is set to the ‘defaults’. Each zone can be manipulated/modified to a different security zone setting but the defaults are the ideal for ensuring SharePoint functions for you, properly.
See the PDF we’ve (itgroove) created below, to help guide you through the simple process of ensuring your Intranet Zone is defined, for your Internet Explorer (IE) browser. In addition, you can have your local IT department define the ‘Intranet Zones’ for all computers on your network, using ‘Group Policies’ to address this in one fell swoop.