Wednesday 14 August 2013

How to enable explorer view in windows server 2012 for sharepoint 2013

Hi,

An issue was reported to me where some users were trying to use explorer view to copy some files in sharepoint libraries in windows server 2012 and were getting an error "This site is not present in trusted site list". I checked and found that the site was present in the trusted site list in browser. The next thing I moved was to verify the webclient service. When I opened services.msc I found no service named as webclient. Hence the first action was get the webclient services installed in the server, to do this I followed the following steps:

1. Open the server manager.
2. Go to add features and select Desktop experience as shown in the screenshot:














3. Restart the server and allow the server to configure itself.
4. Once restarted go to Services.msc and start webclient services.

Thats it and this functionality started working fine.
I hope this will help you out.

Thanks,
Rahul Rashu

Thursday 1 August 2013

How to View PDF Files in Browsers in SharePoint 2013

Hi,

Recently someone expressed his requirements to open pdf files in browsers in the same way as excel files opens up when we use excel services. Although the settings was to open the file in web browser in advanced settings of the document library it was opening in the client application. After some digging into this issue I managed to get it done. Hence here are the steps I am sharing to get this done:

1. Open the document library where you have stored the .pdf file.
2. Go to the advanced settings and make sure that you have selected "Open in web browser" and not in client application.
3. Login to Central Administrator--> Application management --> Web Application general settings and select your web application.
4. Then select your web applicaion --> general settings.and change browser file handling to Permissive from strict as shown below:
























5. Click on OK and here you go.

I hope this will help you out.

Thanks,
Rahul Rashu