Microsoft IE 8 (Beta) and SharePoint
by liquidpooled on Mar.07, 2008, under Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Office, Sharepoint Server
Update: It appears that Explorer View does work, if Web Client (a Windows Service) is enabled. I do not have Office installed on the Virtual Machine (Windows Server 2003 R2) that I was testing IE 8 on, and as such there was no support for FPRPC (FrontPage Remote Procedure Call). In the future, I should use XP at the very least so I have FPRPC out of the box. That, or I could just install Office 2007 on my test machines.
The Internet Explorer version 8 beta (download) was released on March 5th, 2008. I’ve had a chance to play with it in the office a bit, and while I think it’s (possibly) a step up from IE 7, it still has a long road ahead of it. In the course of testing the latest and greatest from Microsoft, I learned that the beta in it’s current form can not render an Explorer View of a Document Library in SharePoint (MOSS 2007 Standard). That makes it a show stopper for use at work, but here’s to hoping that it gets fixed sooner rather than later.
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