Archives | August 2009

Problem Your’e working on a SharePoint box  and you keep getting prompted to login even though your machine is a domain member.   Explanation You need to add the site to your trusted sites and allow IE to send your credentials If you need a long-lasting solution add your SharePoint url to all of your user’s trusted sites using group policy – Adding SharePoint to “Trusted Sites” using Group Policy   Solution In Internet Explorer go to Tools -> Internet Options Select the Security and add all URLs that you might use to access the site On the trusted...

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Problem Users are constantly plagued with login boxes even though they are domain members and your SharePoint site is on your domain. Explanation Users are prompted to login to a site if it’s not on their domain and/or it’s URN is different than that of the server.  For example, if Bill logs into his machine using corp\bill and then tries to visit a site called sharepoint.mycompany.com, IE will prompt him to login because SharePoint.mycompany.com does not equal corp.  I like to look at it in a much easier way, if there’s dots (.) in the name you’re going to have to add the site...

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Problem Every once in a while one of my clients will ask me to change SharePoint’s timeout settings.  It’s an easy change but you don’t make the adjustment in each web application’s web.config, instead the change is a global change made  in the \LAYOUTS\ directory on each web server. Solution To update the execution timeout Login to each front end server Browse to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS Open web.config Locate the <httpRuntime executionTimeout="360" /> line of code and change the timeout...

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