Monday, June 17, 2013

Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer

If you're working on the server operating system and have SharePoint site open, there is a chance that you would like to upload multiple files.

so you think it would be nice if you can open the list in explorer mode and just copy paste the files from your computer.

But when you click on the open with explorer option from ribbon, you get the error message saying your client does not support opening this list with Windows explorer.

Here are steps that you can take.

Enable the desktop experience feature on server. To enable the desktop experience feature, you need to install the feature if not installed.

Open server manager by going into the administrative tools.

Click on add features.

Select desktop experience feature from the list and click on next. Let is install. It will ask you for restart the server. Do a restart to enable that feature. It will resume once you restart and configure itself.

After few minutes, it should be ready.

Now go to the services and then find webclient service. Start the service if it is not.

You will not find WebClient service in the services list if you do not have a desktop feature installed on the server. 

Once started, you should be good to go.

3 comments:

Vicky said...

This is cool!

Anonymous said...

When I enable both authentication (Windows and FBA) on default zone following error is occurred.
"Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer."
Web client service is running on server.
Desktop Experience feature is also enabled on server
Windows explorer is working fine when FBA is disbled on default zone.
When I disable / Unchecked FBA from Default Zone, windows explorer working fine.
But I need to enable both on same default zone.

Anonymous said...

When I enable both authentication (Windows and FBA) on default zone following error is occurred.
"Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer."
Web client service is running on server.
Desktop Experience feature is also enabled on server
Windows explorer is working fine when FBA is disbled on default zone.
When I disable / Unchecked FBA from Default Zone, windows explorer working fine.
But I need to enable both on same default zone.




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