Recently I had a customer who when they tried to open a Word document in their Shared Documents they received multiple prompts from Internet Explorer and Word. This seems to typically happen when the SharePoint site/server is remotely hosted.

What happens is that IE will force this behavior because it does not believe that the SharePoint site is to be trusted. We can work around this designed behavior.

First we have to check to make sure Client Integration is turned on. Go to the following site within SharePoint Central Admin. Continue reading →