Description of the Software Update for Web Folders: May 18, 2007

This article describes the Web folders issues that are fixed in the Software Update for Web Folders that is dated May 18, 2007.

• The issues that the update fixes.
• The prerequisites for installing the update.
• Whether you must restart the computer after you install the update.
• Whether the update is replaced by any other update.
• Whether you must make any registry changes.
• The files that the update contains.

List of issues fixed

This update fixes various issues that may occur when you use Web folders from the client computer to connect to a server that supports Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV).

This update fixes the following issues:

• A document that is opened from a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site may be downloaded two times when you click Edit in Microsoft Office program.
• The download progress indicator does not work for some documents on the SharePoint site.
• You cannot rename or copy files that have a display name in a non-Internet Information Services (IIS) Web folder.

Additionally, this update includes security enhancements to Web folders.

Update information

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
Download the Software Update for Web Folders package now. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=17C36612-632E-4C04-9382-987622ED1D64)

Release Date: May 18, 2007

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Restart information

You may have to restart the computer after you apply this update.

Update replacement information

This update replaces the Software Update for Web Folders that is dated January 25, 2005.

For more information about the Software Update for Web Folders that is dated January 25, 2005, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

File information

After the update is installed, the English version of this update has the file attributes, or a later version of the file attributes, that are listed in the following table:Additional notes

For more information about software update terminology, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
After you install the Software Update for Web Folders package (KB907306) that is provided in this article, Windows Explorer (Explorer.exe) may crash. To resolve this issue, install the 2007 Office system hotfix package that is dated August 26, 2008 (KB956790) after you install the Software Update for Web Folders package.

For more information about how to obtain the hotfix package, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: The 2007 Office system hotfix package can be installed on any computer, regardless of the versions of the Office products that are installed. Additionally, the 2007 Office system hotfix package does not conflict with any earlier versions of Office products that are installed.