6.5. Configuring Single Sign-On (SSO)

I'm tempted to say "And now the moment you've all been waiting for (drumroll, please)," but I digress. As you've already learned, using SSO functionality enables SharePoint users to authenticate only once when they access applications through the portal site, and obtain information from other business applications and systems including third-party applications and back-end systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relations management (CRM) systems.

You can configure Excel Calculation Services to retrieve authentication credentials from an SSO store. To enable SSO functionality for SharePoint Server 2007, you need to start the single sign-on service and then manage SSO settings in the ...

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