Windows Server 2008 Desktop Experience feature and SharePoint

When running SharePoint on Windows Server 2008, make sure you activate the Desktop Experience server feature.

Without activating this feature you can't save documents directly from your Microsoft Office application into a SharePoint Document Library.

Published Mon, May 19 2008 8:28 PM by Harold van de Kamp
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# re: Windows Server 2008 Desktop Experience feature and SharePoint

Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:56 PM by tigirry

I have several Windows Server 2008 Standard editions running Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard with SP1. I did not install the Desktop Experience feature but I can save documents directly from my Microsoft Office Word 2003. I did not do any further testing but you should not have to install the Desktop Experience feature on Windows Server 2008 to work with SharePoint.

# re: Windows Server 2008 Desktop Experience feature and SharePoint

Thursday, October 08, 2009 6:44 PM by MooseJaw

By adding the Desktop Experience feature to my 2008 server I was able to save directly to my SharePoint Document Library.

Thanks for the help.

# re: Windows Server 2008 Desktop Experience feature and SharePoint

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 10:02 PM by James

I have Desktop Experience on my Windows Server 2008 R2 box and still cant save an excel document directly on the server

# re: Windows Server 2008 Desktop Experience feature and SharePoint

Monday, December 13, 2010 10:43 PM by Willy

My workplace has two SharePoint 2010 Web servers running Win Srv '08 R2; I just finished a successful task in which I composed a Word document in IE 8 and saved it directly to a document library folder. Both Web servers DO NOT have the Desktop Experience feature installed.

# re: Windows Server 2008 Desktop Experience feature and SharePoint

Monday, December 13, 2010 10:45 PM by Willy

By the way, I interacted with the document library on a Windows 7 Enterprise workstation.

# re: Windows Server 2008 Desktop Experience feature and SharePoint

Monday, December 13, 2010 10:53 PM by Willy

I just finished applying the process I posted earlier today to an Excel document and was successful.  Again, both Web servers DO NOT have the Desktop Experience feature installed.

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