Microsoft Sharepoint Templates

Creating Resource Profiles Using the Microsoft Sharepoint Template

A Microsoft Sharepoint template is a resource profile that controls access to the application and configures Sharepoint settings as necessary. Microsoft Sharepoint templates significantly reduce your configuration time by consolidating configuration settings into one place and by pre-populating a variety of resource policy settings for you depending on the type of setup you select.

The system supports intermediating traffic to Microsoft Sharepoint through a Web rewriting resource profile template, JSAM, PSAM, and VPN Tunneling. This topic describes how to configure access using the Web rewriting template.

Sharepoint 2010 and Sharepoint 2013 are supported, with the caveats listed in Table. 

Sharepoint 2010 and 2013 Caveats.

Version

Caveats

Sharepoint 2010

Office Web Apps through Windows Live is not supported.

OneNote document support is limited to only notebooks created to be stored on a local computer and then published on SharePoint 2010.

Office documents residing on SharePoint server cannot be opened with Microsoft Office when the server is accessed through the system.

In the current release, we support sending contact information from Sharepoint to your Outlook client through the Content Intermediation Engine (Web rewriting feature). Transferring the contact information to the backend Exchange server requires PSAM, JSAM, or VPN Tunneling. To import contact information into the Sharepoint server from your Outlook client, first export your contacts and then upload them to the Sharepoint server.

Sharepoint 2013

Active Directory Federation Services and claims-based authentication are not supported in this release.

Integrated service with Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013 is not supported.


To create a resource profile using the Microsoft Sharepoint template:

  1. Select Users > Resource Profiles > Web in the admin console.
  2. Click New Profile.
  3. Select Microsoft Sharepoint from the Type list.
  4. Enter a unique name and optionally a description for the Sharepoint resource profile.
  5. Enter the URL of the Sharepoint resource to which you want to control access in the Base URL field. Use the format: [protocol://]host[:port][/path]. The system uses the specified URL to define the default bookmark for the Sharepoint resource profile. You may enter a directory URL or a file URL.
  6. Under Sharepoint Settings, select Allow in-line editing of documents within explorer view to allow users to modify files displayed in the explorer view.

    7. This option is supported only if you enable persistent session (User > User Roles > RoleName > General > Session Options.)

  7. Enter the URL to the Explorer View page, and then click Add. Do not enter a value that resolves to non-Explorer View URLs (such as http://*:*). Doing so might cause Explorer View to not launch.
  8. Order the resources in your list, if appropriate, by selecting the check box next to an item and then using the up and down arrows to move it to the correct place in the list.
  9. Enter the number of minutes a persistent cookie resides on a user's computer before it expires in the Persistent cookie timeout box.

    10. Do not confuse this timeout option with Max. Session Length, which determines the number of minutes an active nonadministrative user session may remain open before ending.

  10. Select Add Web ACL if you have Sharepoint 2013 and the Office Web Apps are on a separate server. The cursor is moved to the Resource text box where you can enter the URL for the Office Web Apps server (see Step 8).
  11. Under Autopolicy: Web Access Control, create a policy that allows or denies users access to the Web resource (and all of its subdirectories) listed in the Resource box.

    1. Specify the Web server or HTML page to which you want to control access in the Resource box. Use the format: [protocol://]host[:port][/path].
    2. Select Allow to enable access to the specified resource or Deny to block access to the specified resource from the Action list.
    3. Click Add.

    12. (Optional) Click Show ALL autopolicy types to create additional autopolicies that fine-tune access to the resource. Then, create the autopolicies.

    13. Click Save and Continue.

    14. Select the roles to which the resource profile applies in the Roles tab, and click Add.

    The selected roles inherit the autopolicies and bookmarks created by the Microsoft Sharepoint resource profile. If it is not already enabled, the system also automatically enables the Web option in the Users > User Roles > Select Role > General > Overview page of the admin console.

    15. Click Save Changes.

    16. (Optional) Modify the default bookmark created by the system in the Bookmarks tab or create new ones.