Thursday, March 06, 2008

Windows Server 2008 - Desktop Experience feature


Ive wasted a lot of time on this - so I hope it helps someone ...

On a Windows Server 2008 VM, I couldn't :
- save directly from Word into a SharePoint Document Library
- "View in Windows Explorer" the SharePoint Document Library

The normal solution is to start the "Web Client" service to enable WebDAV but the service was missing.

Solution was to install the "Desktop Experience" feature.




4 Comments:

  • Blogger Drew said…

      Mark,
    Did you experience a significant slow-down in your VM once you enabled the desktop experience? My Win2008 Server VM is very slow even though i have 2.5GB memory dedicated to it.   

  • Anonymous Anonymous said…

      I hadn't noticed any change.   

  • Anonymous Anonymous said…

      Hrm.... 4 mb of "video" memory with no directx support, no 3d accel. Aero in VM wont work well.   

  • Blogger ivo said…

      it does not have vista aero theme, only the vista basic one. Why would you need that anyway on a server...
    The vista theme only might be interesting when setup as a terminal server   

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