WebDAV Server and IT Hit AJAX File Browser Settings for Microsoft Office

In Internet Explorer you can create and open Microsoft Office documents for editing without downloading them to local file system. For this feature to function properly the following conditions must be met:

1. Microsoft Office 2007 is required to be installed on a client computer. While you can create Microsoft Office 2003 documents, Microsoft Office 2003 cannot create and open for editing directly from web.
2. Your WebDAV server must be located on site root (for example http://server/). Microsoft Office submits configuration requests to site root and requires the server to respond properly. If your WebDAV server is non-root (for example http://server/dav/) Microsoft Office will open documents as read-only.
3. Your WebDAV server must support Class 2. Microsoft Office locks documents when creating and opening files for editing. If Microsoft Office is unable to lock the document it will be opened as read-only.
4. Microsoft Office must be able to lock the template exclusively. Office applications create files using document templates. When creating a new file it obtains exclusive lock on a template.

By default AJAX File Browser searches for Microsoft Office templates in 'templates/' folder. To set a different path use SetMsOfficeTemplatesPath method:

Important! You must specify full path to templates folder including domain name and protocol.

The templates folder must contain templates with following names: template.docx, template.xlsx, template.pptx.

Note that MS Office applications always ask for the authentication when used with Basic and Digest authentication. If you check "Remember my password" checkbox it will still display the login dialog, but the user name and password will be already filled-in, so you just click "OK". If NTLM or Kerberos is used than MS Office asks for credentials only 1 time during first document access.