Accessing Sharepoint 2007 from Office 2010 Technical Preview

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Accessing Sharepoint 2007 from Office 2010 Technical Preview

I have really struggled with my Office 2010 Technical Preview the last few days. Most of the Office 2010 is working really good, but accessing word and excel documents located on a Sharepoint 2007 server, has not been easy!

I had to save a local copy, and then open the local copy to be able to open the document, but saving the document back to Sharepoint was impossible! Office Synchronization Center complained of an upload error without any more details.

So I have tried many different ways of solving this problem, and finally I have found a rather weird but efficient solution:

Go to Internet Options in Internet Explorer
Go to Connections and Lan Settings
Select to use a proxy server for LAN
Use address: 127.0.01 (and port 80)
Click Advanced
In Exceptions write: *.*

You should now be able to open, edit and save back documents on a Sharepoint server from your Office 2010!

Posted by Pål Eie

Tagged as: Office 2010, Office Synchronization Center, Sharepoint, Windows 7 Leave a comment

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Anonymous
September 15th, 2009 - 00:32

thank you!! this works
Yadhu
July 21st, 2010 - 10:43

Hi,
I ‘m using Office 2010 with an embedded sharepoint (2007 )link.
On clicking the link, it only opens a blank document and fails to show the contents of the document . Pl help!
Dinesh
October 2nd, 2010 - 01:27

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the suggestion. However, it did’t work for me. I am using Windows 7 (64bit) with office 2010. Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks!

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