{"id":1552,"date":"2012-01-26T05:11:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T05:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obieta.com\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2012-01-26T05:11:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T05:11:44","slug":"sharepoint-2010-open-with-windows-explorer-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/?p=1552","title":{"rendered":"SharePoint 2010: Open With Windows Explorer Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"

SharePoint users and likewise other application users\u00a0that use WebDav Explorer mode on\u00a0Windows\u00a07 and Windows Vista PC\u2019s may experience very slow file browsing, opening and modification (e.g. SharePoint Explorer View using WebDAV).<\/p>\n

How simple would it be to just uncheck a certain option in IE and fix this brain\u00a0busting issue, especially for Network Admins and SP Admins?<\/p>\n

Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open Internet Explorer<\/li>\n
  2. Go to the Menu \u201cTools<\/strong>\u201d > \u201cInternet Options<\/strong>\u201d then go to the \u201cConnections<\/strong>\u201d tab<\/li>\n
  3. Click on button \u201cLAN Settings<\/strong>\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. Uncheck the box \u201cAutomatically detect settings<\/strong>\u201d (culprit)<\/li>\n
  5. Close and restart all running Internet Explorer processes<\/li>\n
  6. Restart the \u201cWeb Client<\/strong>\u201d Service, if needed.<\/li>\n
  7. Start browsing again\u2026!<\/strong><\/li>\n

    <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now for a bit of knowledge building<\/strong><\/p>\n

    What is the \u201cAutomatically Detect Settings\u201d option in IE?<\/p>\n

    The \u201cAutomatically detect settings\u201d option is there to help the user in configuring a web proxy automatically. It actually makes use of the\u00a0WPAD protocol<\/a> to discover a web proxy.<\/p>\n

    1.\u00a0If the PC is configured to do DHCP, then it will query the server. If the response includes a string with id 252, then it uses this to retrieve a configuration file.<\/p>\n

    2.\u00a0If this fails, then the PC will attempt to resolve the name wpad. It will start in its current domain, and work back through. Eg, if the PC is called bob.cs.anu.edu.au, it will attempt to resolve wpad.cs.anu.edu.au, followed by wpad.anu.edu.au, etc. If this resolves the name wpad, then IE will attempt to retrieve wpad.dat via http from the root of the server. You should probably redirect this to the configuration file.<\/p>\n

    3.\u00a0If this yields no success, then\u00a0IE goes direct.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Now here is your delay, when Step 1 and Step 2 are running, time-out \u2013 finally deciding to open your WebDav folders directly. Phew!<\/p>\n

    Skip it\u2026 <\/strong>if you do not require the auto-discovery feature. Ask your network admin to push a GPO to turn-it-off or uncheck it by default!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    SharePoint users and likewise other application users\u00a0that use WebDav Explorer mode on\u00a0Windows\u00a07 and Windows Vista PC\u2019s may experience very slow file browsing, opening and modification (e.g. SharePoint Explorer View using WebDAV). How simple would it be to just uncheck a certain option in IE and fix this brain\u00a0busting issue, especially for Network Admins and SP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}