On this page:. Web browser support Safari Safari is the only browser that Microsoft officially supports for use with SharePoint on OS X clients, and offers the best experience. For limitations on Microsoft's support of SharePoint with Safari, see. The Silverlight plug-in is required for advanced user interface controls. Normally, Kerberos or NTLMv2 is required to access SharePoint at IU. Safari supports both Kerberos and NTLMv2 with no additional configuration required.

If Kerberos is available, it will be used; if it is not, NTLMv2 will be used. Some additional features may not be supported with non-Windows browsers. For instance, Internet Explorer for Windows is the only browser that supports ActiveX, so any ActiveX control will generally not work with OS X browsers. Other browsers Chrome and Firefox for OS X are not officially supported by Microsoft for use with SharePoint. However, you can access SharePoint using one of these browsers if you take some additional steps.

Normally, Kerberos or NTLMv2 authentication is required to access SharePoint at IU. Chrome and Firefox for OS X currently support only Kerberos authentication, but by default, this setting is not enabled. To use Chrome or Firefox with SharePoint:.

Authentication using Kerberos. Obtain a Kerberos ticket-granting ticket (TGT) by doing one of the following:. Log into with your username and to bind your Mac to IU's Active Directory Service. Once you have logged in, you'll automatically have a Kerberos TGT. Launch Ticket Viewer. For details, see IU's Kerberos servers are only accessible to computers that are on the IU network. To use Kerberos authentication from off campus, you must first.

Configure your browser. Chrome: Be sure Chrome is not running, and then open the Terminal app and enter: defaults write com.google.Chrome AuthServerWhitelist.iu.edu Chrome will now automatically authenticate to SharePoint (as long as you have a Kerberos TGT).

Firefox. Open Firefox, and enter about:config in the address bar. Dismiss the warning that appears, and double-click network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris. Enter the following: exchange.sharepoint.iu.edu,my.sharepoint.iu.edu,www.mysharepoint.iu.edu,www.sharepoint.iu.edu Firefox will now automatically authenticate to SharePoint (as long as you have a Kerberos TGT).

Access SharePoint using IUanyWare. Log into. Click the Web & Mail icon, and then click the IU SharePoint icon.

Enter the URL of your desired SharePoint site. For more about using IUanyWare, see:. WebDAV support If you have Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) or later, you can use the Finder's Go  Connect to Server command to connect to SharePoint.

In previous versions, you will only have read access to your site; write access is not available. For the following main WebDAV URLs, replace sitename with the name of your departmental or group site. For personal (My Site) sites, replace username with your IU Network ID username. Group site:.

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My Site: https://my.sharepoint.iu.edu/personal/username. The Documentation Connection application is not included in Microsoft Office 2016. You can use Microsoft Document Connection (included in ) to access files on a SharePoint site. This application is similar to SharePoint Workspace 2010 on Windows, and works as a middleman between the SharePoint site and the other Office applications on your Mac. Using Microsoft Document Connection, you can:. Read files.

Edit files. Upload files. Check files in and out However, you cannot:. Create folders. Drag and drop folders from your local system to a SharePoint site. Delete files. Edit file metadata.

Edit live; you must click Refresh to see your changes When adding a new SharePoint site to Microsoft Document Connection, use the listed above for departmental (i.e., group) and personal (My Site) sites. Microsoft Office 2016 It is possible to open and save documents directly to SharePoint from Office 2016 for Mac OS X. In Word, Excel, or PowerPoint:. In a Save window, click the Online Locations button, then click the +.

In an Open window, click the + button. Click SharePoint. Next to 'URL:' for the following URLs, replace sitename with the name of your departmental or group site.

For personal (My Site) sites, replace username with your IU Network ID username. Group site:. My Site:. Click Next. Enter your IU username and passphrase when prompted for a 'User name:' and 'Password', then click Sign In. Your SharePoint site will be available under the SharePoint section of your open or save window.

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Enter you question Our Best Answer I can't open a SharePoint or OneDrive document using the desktop Office app When might this issue occur?. You open a Microsoft Office document from a SharePoint or OneDrive location, the document successfully opens in your web browser ( eg. Word or Excel Online). You click Edit Document Edit in Word. The document fails to open with an error similar to the one below. What might be the cause of the error? If you use a shared Deakin computer, it may already be logged in using a generic or other account, which means the Office Suite will also be logged in under that generic account.

This means that if you open a web browser on the shared computer, then go to your SharePoint or OneDrive files within a web browser, the accounts will not match. What can I do to get around this?.

If the computer is a standard Deakin Staff or Lab machine, simply log it out of the other account and log in with your own account - this will log both the computer and the Office suite in under your own account. Some Deakin shared computers ( for example a MoCoW) are set to auto login using a generic account - you can't login using your own Deakin account.

To work around this, you can manually log the Office suite out of the generic account and then login with your own account:. Open one of the Office applications ( Word, Excel). Click on the name in the top right corner and click Switch account.

Sign in using your own Deakin account - make sure you sign out again once you've finished.