We are in process of migrating our SharePoint 2010 environment to 2016 . While we are having SiteMinder agent as authentication when we try to access the word/excel/ppt documents in Chrome browser it is asking for login credentials where as in IE it opens directly. In SP2010 we don;t see this issue as they use to open in both IE and Chrome. so while doing some research I found this article which is for SP2013. I am just curious if I can use this KB on my SP2016 environment or will it break my environment?
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No, you can't. That fix would be present in 2016 RTM and up.
answered Sep 24, 2018 at 15:21
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Hi Trevor thanks for confirming about that., We have installed the latest KB on SP2016 still I am facing the same issue of unable to open the office docs from chrome browser do you have any thoughts on this. Sep 24, 2018 at 17:05
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1Remember that the browser and Office app do not share auth cookies. IE has some extra helpers and 2010/2016 work different from each other in terms of opening files. Honestly, this is a case where SAML doesn't work that well with SharePoint and for various reasons, I don't recommend it. Best bet is to take a Fiddler session to see what/who is asking you to re-auth.– Trevor Seward ♦Sep 24, 2018 at 21:10
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interesting thing is when I keep the site open in IE and try to open the site in chrome and open the file sin chrome it does work. strange though! Sep 24, 2018 at 21:18