Alfresco 4.0

Sharepoint ProtocolMike Farman

Nov 2011

Alfresco 4.0

Sharepoint Protocol Enhancements

• Mac Office 2011 and Office 2010 Support

• Brower “Edit Online” support for Windows

Office 2010 and Mac Office 201o Open directly in client application

o Adds Chrome, Firefox (Safari TBC) to existing IE only

support

o Word, Excel, PowerPoint

• Fixes and Reliability Improvements

Office 2010 & Mac Office 2011

Capabilities

• From Word/Office/Excelo File Open, File Save/Save Aso Checkout/Checkin

o Versioning

• Version History• Compare Versions

• View & Restore from previous version• Version Comments

o Merge Updates

• Documents edited online are not locked. This allows updates from multiple authors to be merged

• From Shareo Edit Online (New for non-IE browsers)

• Launch Document Directly in the client application, edit & save

• Note: No Document Workspace. MS removed it from Office 2010 and 2011

Example: Word File->Info

Version History and

Comments

Check Out / In

Compare Versions

Merge Updates

[Mac 2011 Screenshot Here]

Office 2010 - Edit Online

• Office 2010 silently installs a plugin for NPAPI browserso Chrome, Firefox (Safari TBC)

• Allows Word, Excel & PowerPoint to be launched directly

• Edit Online action appears if plugin is installed

• Opens the document using Sharepoint protocol

• Removes the need to download to local filesystem, open, edit, save, upload

Edit Online

1) Edit OnlineOpens document directly

in native application

2) SaveVersions and updates

directly in Alfresco

Availability

• Alfresco 4.0 Sharepoint Module (AMP)

Office 2010, Windows 7and Alfresco

Authentication

• By default Office 2010 on Windows and Windows 7 (Mac?) does not support HTTP Basic Authentication over HTTP as passwords are sent in plain text

• By default, Alfresco uses HTTP Basic Authentication

Therefore…

• Out-of-the-Box Office 2010 or Windows 7 and Alfresco installs will not work

• Options:1. Change Windows registry to enable support for basic auth.

• Ok for demos, but not for productionHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\Internet\BasicAuthLevel

(REG_DWORD) and set its value to 2

2. Setup Alfresco and the Sharepoint Module to use SSL

• See https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/DOC-227

Other Authentication Issues

• If Windows 7 prompts for password for each operationo See http://www.quantumofgeek.com/2010/02/windows-7-prompting-for-authentication-when-accessing-sharepoint-documents/

• If you are prompted to enter your credentials when you access an full qualified domain name site (e.g. my.alfresco.site) from Windows Vista or Windows 7 client that has no proxy configuredo See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943280

• For more info see: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-9331