Description of the Software Update for Web Folders: May 18, 2007

This article describes the Web folders issues that are fixed in the Software Update for Web Folders that is dated May 18, 2007.

This article describes the following items about the update:

• The issues that the update fixes.
• The prerequisites for installing the update.
• Whether you must restart the computer after you install the update.
• Whether the update is replaced by any other update.
• Whether you must make any registry changes.
• The files that the update contains.

This update installs the Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider component. The Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider component makes it possible to connect to a Web server as a Web folder when the native Web Client service cannot. The Windows 2003 and Windows XP x64-based native Web Client service redirector for WebDAV only provides support for TCP port 80. This limitation does not apply to the native Web Client in Windows Vista or later. The Windows native Web Client service redirector only communicates via WebDAV. Therefore, you will be unable to establish a Web folder connection to any Web server implementing Web folder functionality via a Web Extender Client component (like FrontPage Server Extensions).

Note On a Windows x64-based computer the Windows Explorer (shell, common dialog boxes, My Network Places, and so on) and other 64-bit applications cannot use the Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider. This is only available as a 32-bit application. 64-bit applications are limited to using Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) via the native Web Client service redirector. There are currently no plans for porting this deprecated Windows component to future 64-bit versions of the operating system.

Important Do not install this Software Update for Web Folders on a Windows 7-based machine. The Update cannot be un-installed and can lead to an unsupported Windows 7 system.

Update information

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:Release Date: May 18, 2007

For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.

Restart information

You may have to restart the computer after you apply this update.

Update replacement information

This update replaces the Software Update for Web Folders that is dated January 25, 2005.

For more information about the Software Update for Web Folders that is dated January 25, 2005, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

File information

After the update is installed, the English version of this update has the file attributes, or a later version of the file attributes, that are listed in the following table:

Additional notes

For more information about software update terminology, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:After you install the Software Update for Web Folders package (KB907306) that is provided in this article, Windows Explorer (Explorer.exe) may crash. To resolve this issue, install the 2007 Office system hotfix package that is dated August 26, 2008 (KB956790) after you install the Software Update for Web Folders package.

For more information about how to obtain the hotfix package, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: he 2007 Office system hotfix package can be installed on any computer, regardless of the versions of the Office products that are installed. Additionally, the 2007 Office system hotfix package does not conflict with any earlier versions of Office products that are installed.