As most SharePoint developers likely do, I run my SharePoint environments using virtualization software (VMWare Workstation). Last week I was preparing for a demo. I was going to cover Excel Services; therefore, I needed to publish a few Excel spreadsheets. When I brought up the Publish dialog and attempted to specify the document library which will hold my spreadsheets, I would receive errors that the website could not be found. What puzzled me was it worked fine in Windows Server 2003.
Below are a list of similar issues I ran into:
- Could not publish an Excel spreadsheet to Excel Services. Received a “Cannot find ‘http://webaddress’. Please check your spelling.” error.
- When attempting to view the list in Windows Explorer, I received the error: “Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer”.
- When creating a new Word document by clicking the New button in a document library toolbar, after adding text, the document could only be saved to the local file system. If I selected the option to edit the document in Microsoft Word, after making changes, the document would be saved to the SharePoint document library.
- When attempting to open a document in Word by specifying a web folder, I would receive the error that it could not be found.
After some research, the issue seemed related to the WebClient service not being started. When I reviewed my services list, I did not even have the WebClient service installed. Reviewing the list of Windows Server 2008 features, I figured the problem was related to the Desktop Experience feature not being installed. After installing the feature, everything worked correctly.
