Office Web App Prompting For Credentials Externally Only
We deployed an office web app server and it works great internally, but whenever we try to access documents externally, we are prompted for credentials. Even if we put our credentials in, we always get a 401 forbidden error. Also note that
we can access the hosting/discovery page fine internally, but not externally. Any help is appreciated.
Hi,
According to your description, I think this issue is more related to SharePoint, I suggest that you could post it to
SharePoint forum.
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link to other users so they may co-author the file?
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My goal is to give users the ability to co-author documents without going to 3rd party solutions such as Google Docs, etc.
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