Description of the Software Update for Web Folders: January 25, 2005

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SUMMARY

Microsoft has released an update for Web folders. The "Article contents" section describes the information that this article contains about the update.

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This article describes the Software Update for Web Folders that is dated January 25, 2005. This update fixes two issues that occur when you use Web folders from your client computer to connect to a server that supports Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV). Additionally, this update includes security enhancements to Web folders and adds support for URLs of Web sites that use Security Sockets Layer (SSL).

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Update details

List of issues that the update fixes

This update fixes the following issues that were not previously documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

The names of folders or files are missing characters after you use Web folders to connect to a WebDAV server and move or copy the folders or files to your client computer

You use a network place shortcut to connect to a shared folder on a server that supports WebDAV. The network place shortcut to the shared folder uses a URL that is similar to the following:

http://ServerName:PortNumber/ShareName

You move or copy a folder or file in the shared folder from the server to your client computer. When you view the folder or file on your client computer, the name of the folder of file is missing the first three characters. For example, if the name of the folder on the server is Folder1, the name of the folder after you copy the subfolder to your client computer is Der1.

You receive error messages when you use Web folders to connect to a WebDAV server and try to open a folder or file in a shared folder

You use a network place shortcut to connect to a shared folder on a server that supports WebDAV. The network place shortcut to the shared folder uses a URL that is similar to the following:

http://ServerName:PortNumber/ShareName

You experience the following symptoms when you try to open a folder or file in the shared folder:

When you try to open a folder in the shared folder, you receive an error message that is similar to the following:
Documents in this folder are not available. The folder may have been moved or deleted, or network problems may be preventing a connection to the server
This problem occurs if the name of the subfolder contains one or more high ASCII characters.
When you try to open an Office document in the shared folder, the Office program stops responding (hangs). Additionally, you may receive an error message that is similar to the following:
The document name or path is not valid.
This problem occurs if the name of the document contains one or more high ASCII characters.

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Installation details

How to obtain and install the update

This update is available from the Microsoft Download Center. To download this update from the Microsoft Download Center, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=17C36612-632E-4C04-9382-987622ED1D64 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=17C36612-632E-4C04-9382-987622ED1D64)

How to determine whether the update is installed

The update contains files with the versions that are listed in the following table.

Date          Time    Version        Size        File name
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25-Mar-2003   05:52   4.0.2.7523       618,605   Fp4autl.dll      
19-Nov-2000   10:28   4.0.2.4715       450,669   Fp4awec.dll      
28-Oct-2004   22:03   11.0.6715.15     843,472   Msdaipp.dll      
18-Jul-2003   18:05   11.0.5510.0      160,320   Msdapml.dll      
28-Oct-2004   21:50   11.0.6715.15   1,293,008   Msonsext.dll     
18-Jul-2003   18:05   11.0.5510.0       80,448   Pkmws.dll

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