Share sessions with Microsoft Office applications

We can configure WebSEAL to instruct browsers to share session information with Microsoft Office applications. Sharing session information avoids the need for the Microsoft Office applications to re-authenticate the user.

• Overview of session sharing with Microsoft Office applications
  
• Configure the temporary session cache
  We can configure the temporary session cache that WebSEAL uses for its session sharing functionality. In particular, we can control the lifetime of cache entries, specify the name of the temporary session cookie, and configure the default results page.
• Configure shared sessions with Microsoft Office applications
  We can configure WebSEAL to use the temporary session cache so that both Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office products can reference the same user session.

Parent topic: Session state in non-clustered environments

Related concepts

• Maintain session state in non-clustered environments
• Session cookies
• Customized responses for old session cookies
• Maintain session state with HTTP headers