New Content: Understanding and Troubleshooting the SharePoint Explorer View

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Oh Bliss, Oh Joy!

Understanding and Troubleshooting the SharePoint Explorer View:
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c523ac7a-5724-48be-b973-641e805588f4&displaylang=en

I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for just this document. Why? Because I have been onsite many times to try and work through the issues now beautifully described in this document. Reading through it caused epiphany after epiphany: "ahhhh...so THAT is what is going on".

The explorer view feature is one that is VERY popular with end users AND it provides perhaps this simplest way to "Bulk Load" content into SharePoint, when it works, it works really well, however when it doesn't, getting to the bottom of why can be a real pain. It usually involves various combinations of NetMon, Filemon, Regmon and even sometimes an industrial strength medical stethoscope.

A really big thanks to all those involved.

Written by Steve Sheppard
Additional contributions by Dustin Friesenhahn, Dan Szepesi, Dan Winter, Jon Waite, Tony McIntyre, Alonzo Millow, Scott Jiles and Drew Leaumont.

P.S. Personal thanks to Dan Szepesi who assisted me on a number of occasions while I was onsite!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    Finally there's a document out there chronicling Explorer View within SharePoint. Dan McPherson comments about Explorer View in his post that Explorer View is a VERY popular feature, and it can also be a big pain to troubleshoot. Hopefully the official..

  • Anonymous
    August 17, 2007
    Body: Just remembered, Sunday April 1 st was the three year anniversary of Point2Share. The last year