Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Most annoying thing - Prompts for credentials a bunch of times...

The below was found by my friend Chris Weinert... Here is the solution in his own words....
On Windows 7 (Sysmex domain), when you open a Visio document from SharePoint, do you get prompted for credentials a bunch of times? Does the document open even if you cancel out of the dialogs?


Yes, and Yes, right?



I’ve been looking for this issue since late 2008 when still using Vista. Regular files open up fine, but some Office documents prompt for credentials.

Vista/Win7 behave differently than XP with the way they (and Office) interact with SharePoint.



I finally found a solution on a TechNet forum.

Add this registry setting:







And then restart the WebClient service on your local machine:









Open up a Visio diagram, or one of the HR New Hire/Term forms (InfoPath)….no more prompts!!

Enjoy.

-C

1 comment:

  1. So there you have it; it didn't work in 2007 either, but I had completely forgotten that I had written the primer for this express purpose. With this simple bit of code, you can save yourself the hassle of having to copy fields from your content type to your schema.xml definition file when creating custom list definitions for SharePoint and all of the fields are nicely copied over from your site level content type to your list instance without having to manually modify the schema.xml file for your list.
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