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Nice,  will be going to give this a spin on my 10.6 MBA now.

Hi BPOS Team

I've been testing and trying.. Testing and trying... writing usernames and passwords. Resetting default browser to Safari 4.03... Everytime I try to log in, I get the message: Wrong username or password. When I write the exact same thing om my windows client, everything works perfect.

I use:

Snow Leopard

Mail.app

Safari and/or FireFox

Evrything is updated to the latest version.

The Mac, is a persoanl machine so i don't log in using a AD on it...

Do you have any idea why this won't work?

Where do I download this form?

Interessting article. We would like to use this new information for our microsoft online services blog in germany: www.himmlische-it.de. Can I use your picture from the sign-in client?

Thanks for your answer.

Kerstin

Well, this sucks Im afraid. You ought to make it abundantly clear that this application only really supports Safari. I have open support issues, and spent ages trying to figure them out.

Note that when I set Safari to be my default browser, all my other applications which have stored information on my computer open in Safari and dont work as expected because Ive really never used Safari before and there are no stored cookies or remembered passwords etc.

At #SPC09 in Las Vegas Microsoft made a great play of browser interoperability.

You need to support the main browsers on the Mac, Safari, Firefox and Camino at a bare minimum with your application.

Are you planning to ?

Angus

Ulrich G. Bojko,

You may get repeated login requests if you don't install the single-sign on application by dragging and dropping in the applications folder.

Andrew

Angus- As IE is the native browser for Windows, so is Safari to Macs. Everyone using the Sign In app on Windows use it with IE regardless if they have stored information on other browsers. If you need to use those services you have stored on other browsers, you just need to open the browser and use as usual regardless if you use Safari as your default browser. It is not possible for Microsoft to support all available browsers on Mac simply because there are more important things to do, besides they also have their own OS to cater to instead of trying to bring Macs up to speed (that should be Apple's job), also because there are hundreds of browsers, and Camino is certainly not one of the main browsers based on user-base. And if those applications you need to use are really Mac-compatible, they will work just fine on Safari, so start getting used to it. While for the most part MSO is usable on any browser, full functionality is mainly supported on IE on Windows, do you seriously think that will change on a Mac?