Enable Desktop Experience on Servers to Access SharePoint Web Folders

By


All of us like to access our files like a network drive, and drag and drop and mapping this drive to windows explorer or write/upload to SharePoint using scripts.
In order to access SharePoint like a network drive we need to enable a windows feature on our OS which is called "Desktop Experience" which include a webDAV client which is required to open SharePoint documents as a folder on our machine. On most windows desktop OS it is by default enabled, but on servers we need to enable this feature.
If you see the below image, you can notice that if you click on "Open with Explorer" you may get this error.

The Solution is very simple on to enable this on Windows servers (2008/2012 servers)
  1.  Open Powershell command prompt
  2. Type "Import-Module ServerManager" without Quotes and execute it(enter)
  3. Next you need to execute "Add-Windowsfeature Desktop-Experience" this will install the necessary feature
  4. Or you can create a powershell file with the above two commands and execute that file in powershell window like below.


After the server restart you can open the sharepoint files as a web folders:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

SharePoint logs and IIS logs backup/archive and Compress to a file

By
The data keeps on growing as the SharePoint Farm being adopted more into the company and customers. It brings more challenges in terms of keeping up with the pace of requests and data administration. We are going to address today one part of that problem which is managing SharePoint LOGS weather it is ULS, Diagnostic and Analytic logging. Also it includes IIS logs. To address this challenge I did wrote a small script to migrate these logs to a different directory and them zip these logs and move to a network storage or to another directory on the local hard drive. Some of the challenges to achieve this were ·         There are IIS logs with same file names in different directories (mainly IIS logs) we need to maintain the directories structure to not miss any logs. ·         The criteria to move these logs out is based on a number of day , like I need to move all the logs 15 or older away from the defaul...
Read more

Optimizing SharePoint 2013 Server Performance - Development Server (single server)

By
Image
There were couple of new services introduced with SharePoint 2013 and raised the hardware resource requirements. Let’s only talk about those process and steps to control the resource consumption when it comes to a single server SharePoint 2013 installation. ·           NodeRunner service ·           Distributed Cache Service ·           Count of Web Application NodeRunner service Use Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService -PerformanceLevel Reduced to reduce the CPU impact the search service has on your test environment. Modify the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Search\Runtime\1.0\noderunner.exe.config so that it can only consume X amount of RAM. Change the value at <nodeRunnerSettings memoryLimitMegabytes="0" /> to any amount of RAM you like to contain the memory leak. May be 250 MB per instanc...
Read more

PowerShell Cmdlets to Upgrade Content Databases from SP 2010 to 2013

By
Image
In this new article, I will summarize basic  Powershell  cmdelts we have available to upgrade  SharePoint 2010  content databases to  SharePoint 2013 : Before going into detail, you can list available cmdlets by executing the following PowerShell sentence in the  SharePoint 2013 Administration Console : Get-help *SPContentDatabase After executing this sentence, you will have a list with all the cmdlets available: From this list, the cmdlets we are interested in are the following:  Test-SPContentDatabse, Upgrade-SPContentDatabase and Mount-SPContentDatabase. Test-SPContentDatabase  cmdlet allows you to identify any issue or customization you could take into account when upgrading a content database to SharePoint 2013: features installed in the SharePoint 2010 environment that should be in the SharePoint 2013 ones, language packs installed, etc. Below, you can find the general syntax for Test-SPContentDatabase. ...
Read more