Re: Links from Microsoft Word losing authentication context.

2018-01-20 Thread Tony Wright
Yea, I've seen that article. It refers to single sign on, which isn't really what I'm doing, but I can see that the underlying idea that Word creates a brand new session is why it's doing it. Perhaps they thought it opened the door to potential security violations by allowing it to utilise cookies.

Re: Links from Microsoft Word losing authentication context.

2018-01-20 Thread Richard Carde
Rings a bell and I've come across this quite some time ago. Refer to the following, it probably relates to your situation: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/899927/you-are-redirected-to-a-logon-page-or-an-error-page-or-you-are-prompte *The Web site in the hyperlink uses a Single Sign-On (S

Links from Microsoft Word losing authentication context.

2018-01-20 Thread Tony Wright
Hi people, I have an issue with an asp.net mvc application. Essentially, if I log into the application, and I tick the "remember me" box, it stores a cookie with the authentication details and logs me in. Any time I come back to that site within the timeframe set within the context of that saved