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MMarco_77's avatar
MMarco_77
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Apr 17, 2023

APM start two session for Office App

Hi, after integrating F5 with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for Sharepoint authentication, I noticed that all content is opened correctly; Word, Wxcel, Powerpoint files are opened correctly in o...
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Juergen_Mang's avatar
Juergen_Mang
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Apr 18, 2023

You should enable persistent cookies for this apm profile, if not already done.

  • MMarco_77's avatar
    MMarco_77
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    Apr 18, 2023

    Hi Jurgen,
    do you mean this persistence? in fact it is not selected.
    I don't know if it can be decisive, because the call made from excel comes without cookies (after all, it's not a browser that makes the call) and therefore it is recognized as a new session and not a subsession of the one made via browser .

    It is true that reading the K15387( https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K15387)  indicates that

    For some deployments of the BIG-IP APM system, as with Microsoft SharePoint, cookie persistence may be required

     I do a test...
    Thanks for now

    /MM

    • MMarco_77's avatar
      MMarco_77
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      Apr 18, 2023

      Hi Jurgen,

      as I thought, it doesn't work.

      The call is made from application excel/word/ppt and not from the browser (from log I see that create a header), therefore it appears without MRH cookies and is recognized as a new session:

       Many thanks

      /MM

      • ShakeelRashid's avatar
        ShakeelRashid
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        Sep 25, 2023

        Hello Marco,

         

        Did you ever find a solution for this?