Archive for May, 2007
Office 2007 document types and webservers
Well, over the weekend some of the other sysadmins of the world provided the solution to the Office 2007 file download problems.
It’s all about the mime types. For those of you not in the know, a MIME type is an Internet Standard that is used to help webservers and e-mail servers know what kind of files are being served up and sent out. Check out the Wikipedia article for more.
Microsoft wins and loses with Office 07 and IE compatibility
So with the impending roll out of Microsoft Office 2007 here at work, we have discovered something interesting. Apparently IE 6 and IE 7 don’t understand how to deal with the new file types that were introduced with Office 2007.
