“Open with Explorer” Greyed out in SharePoint 2013?

Open with Windows Explorer is Disabled in SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2010? Well, Open with Explorer works only in the 32-bit version of Internet Explorer! It may not work on Chrome or Firefox. Solution: To enable Open with explorer, Open your SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013 site with the 32-bit version of…

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Open with Explorer Error: You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The file cannot be accessed by the system.

Problem: In an SSL-enabled SharePoint 2013 site, the “Open with Explorer” functionality didn’t work! Additionally, editing documents online did not work. It just opens the file in the Temporary Internet files folder and updates ONLY the local file but not the one in SharePoint. Open with Explorer resulted in an error message:…

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Destination folder access denied. You need permission to perform this action – SharePoint 2013 Explorer View Issue

Problem: Getting “Destination folder access denied. You need permission to perform this action” error message while trying to copy paste from local disk to SharePoint 2013 using explorer view? Solution: If your source folder is customized with NTFS permissions, try resetting those permissions and grant your account to FULL Control to your…

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Open with Explorer Error – Alternate Method

When you try to use “Open with Explorer” on SharePoint document library, Received Error “Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer”. You tried all the workarounds on Open with Windows Explorer Error: “Your client does not support opening this list with windows explorer” , but no luck! Well,…

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How to Change the URL of the SharePoint List or Library?

Requirement: Change the List or Document Library URL in SharePoint. Another interesting question, How to change the URL of the existing List or Library in SharePoint? End-user named a document library “2011 Goals & Results”, and in the URL, it came as “2011%20Goals%20%20Results”, Now they made a request to special characters in…

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Open with Windows Explorer Error: “Your client does not support opening this list with windows explorer”

Problem: Some of the end-users got the following message when trying to open a SharePoint Document Library in explorer view from Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008. Error : “Your client does not support opening this list with windows explorer” Try these solutions:  As of now, This feature is available only in…

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Upload Multiple Documents, Explorer Views Disabled or Missing in SharePoint?

Found Upload multiple documents and Explorer views are disabled (in some cases, they are missing!) in a SharePoint 2010 site! Solution Here are the possible causes and solutions for upload multiple documents, explorer view disabled or missing in SharePoint 2010:  As of now, This feature is available only in IE 32 bit….

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