vinasfen.blogg.se

1. #BEST WAYS TO USE SHAREPOINT FROM WINDOWS EXPLORER HOW TO#
2. #BEST WAYS TO USE SHAREPOINT FROM WINDOWS EXPLORER INSTALL#

To my deep joy after installation and a restart the drive would finally make.

#BEST WAYS TO USE SHAREPOINT FROM WINDOWS EXPLORER INSTALL#

I didn’t hold out much hope but it looked like a safe feature to install anyway so why not give it a go.

#BEST WAYS TO USE SHAREPOINT FROM WINDOWS EXPLORER HOW TO#

The first page I read was this one detailing how to install WebDAV client on Windows Server 2016. By a stroke of luck I decided to start by looking into WebDAV as that’s how SharePoint transfers files (at least that’s my understanding anyway). The SolutionĪfter entirely too much googling I’d draw a complete blank so I decided to go back to basics. My hunch was that it was something to do with the ActiveX that launches Windows Explorer and that turned out to be right. I tried checking the console in IE but there were no error messages. The only other thing that was suspicious was that if I tried to view a SharePoint folder in Windows Explorer using the “All Documents > View in File Explorer” link it would briefly open a small IE window and then nothing would happen after it closed. I could ping the server so it clearly wasn’t a problem with network connection and IE didn’t have a problem showing me the web view of SharePoint. I was at a command prompt and entering a net use command and every time it was giving me either a “system error 67” or “system error 53” followed by “the network name cannot be found”. The problem I faced today was that no matter what I tried I couldn’t get the drive to map. This complicates providing a username and password but it’s not the end of the world, it means you have to log into SharePoint in IE before you can map the drive. Part of the problem is that our customer uses a customised log in system rather than the standard system offered by Microsoft. Sounds like it should be an easy job yeah? Anyone who has worked with the SharePoint web interface will know it’s a painful experience to move a lot of files around so to make it easier we map a network drive to the share.įor some reason I’ve never quite got to the bottom of this drive mapping has never been an easy experience. Pretty much all we have to do is download some files and upload a few others.

We don’t run the SharePoint service it’s provided by one of our customers and hosted in the cloud. I say unenviable because if there’s one thing that is going to go wrong this connection or something to do with it is what will fail. In my day job I have the unenviable task of looking after our connection to a SharePoint server.