Sharepoint 2010 / Exchange 2010 Single Sign On issue

Question

I have an Exchange 2010 Hosted environment and now I installed new Sharepoint 2010 Farm. My issue is that Outlook Web Parts won't work with Single Sign On and I have to log in twice. First time to Sharepoint site and second time to OWA. Is there any way to make it working with SSO. All my servers (Exchange and Sharepoint) are connected to the same domain.

Answer 1

The exchange webparts are just using an iframe to display a subset of outlook web application (OWA) functions. Do you have OWA set up? If the user is requested to enter credentials to the OWA url you will get the same for the webpart in SharePoint.

In the first place the user if integrated into the domain (domain joined desktop/laptop) using IE should not get a credential prompt. If it is prompted you have to configure the SharePoint URL into the trusted sites so the logon credentials are send by default. SharePoint "must" be setup using NTLM or even better Kerberos. Otherwise clients from vista or higher are not sending any credentials to basic auth websites. Do the same stuff for owa and you won't see credentials.

OWA Basic Auth: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282805/en-us

Browser and Integrated Authentication: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Setting+your+Browser+Options+for+Automatic+Login