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Explorer View not supported by IE7 on 2008

  Asked By: Kassandra Larsen         Date: Dec 31, 2009      Category: Sharepoint      Views: 632
 

Anyone have any quick/easy fixes for this? Apparently there's no Explorer
view for My Site libraries, so this could be painful if there are enough
documents. I'll be looking at stsadm next, but any "been there" insight
would be appreciated.

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8 Answers Found

 
Answer #1       Answered By: Alycia Everett          Answered On: Dec 31, 2009       

Okay, strike what I said about no explorer  View. The problem here is that
when I try to go to Explorer View, I get the standard "your client does not
support opening this list with windows explorer" error.

So far, Google has failed me. Any tips?

 
Answer #2       Answered By: Kaila Hahn          Answered On: Dec 31, 2009       

Are you doing this from IE7 on the server? If so, make sure that you are
opening the 32 bit IE7 and not the 64 bit version. The message you are getting
is what I normally get when using IE7 from Vista 64. As long as I make sure I'm
opening the 32 bit version of IE I can normally get the Windows Explorer view  to
work.

 
Answer #3       Answered By: Ada Sosa          Answered On: Dec 31, 2009       

but I get the same result in the 32-bit version.

I don't suppose I'd need to install the Desktop Experience feature for
this...?

 
Answer #4       Answered By: Cheyenne Lewis          Answered On: Dec 31, 2009       

Yes, you do. You might also need to do
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861 as well depending on the
specifics of your setup.

 
Answer #5       Answered By: Liana Alston          Answered On: Dec 31, 2009       

If you are doing it directly on the server it may also be a problem with the
loopback security check imposed in Server 2003 SP1 and later. See the following
blog.

www.harbar.net/.../disableloopbackcheck-amp-sharepoint-wha\
t-every-admin-and-developer-should-know.aspx

 
Answer #6       Answered By: Daamodar Kolhe          Answered On: Dec 31, 2009       

I took care of loopback several months ago due to indexing issues.

Unless of course you think there's an additional layer of loopback checking
that would allow normal browsing but disallow Explorer View...?

 
Answer #7       Answered By: Emerson Franks          Answered On: Dec 31, 2009       

You aren't by any chance using Forms Based Authentication on your site
are you? We are having an issue with explorer  view on Vista with FBA.

 
Answer #8       Answered By: Ned Storm          Answered On: Dec 31, 2009       

Nope. Regular old Windows Auth.

Always worth asking, though.

 
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