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.
So on an Apache webserver you need to add the following to your mime types file:
application/vnd.openxmlformats docx pptx xlsx
Thanks goes out to Vlad Mazek and his post on this one.
Now if only it was so easy for a Windows webserver running IIS. For the process on updating IIS, surf on over to the entry on David Oberton’s blog at a href=”http://uksbsguy.com/”>UK SBS Guy.