Comments on: Configuring IIS6 to Serve Office 2007 File Formats

By: Kristie

Kristie — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:56:41 +0000

Thanks, it worked.

By: Eva Young

Eva Young — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:49:26 +0000

Thank you so much for this well written tip. This has been an annoyance of mine for a long time, and your advice worked like a charm.

By: James

James — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:57:24 +0000

@Robert – You should be able to script this using VBScript and WMI. IIS6 has a metabase, which is similar to – though separate from – the Windows registry. Take a look here for more information on accessing the IIS6 metabase using WMI. HTH.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:59:41 +0000

Hi, thanks, it worked!

Would you know if there is a way to update a large amount of different servers (in various locations) easely?
Like a registry key or something?
I guess that Microsoft has a trick or a tool to do so maybe…

Anyhow, thank you very much!
Have a nice day.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:39:40 +0000

A quicker (and transparent) way of making the new MIME types active is to refresh the Application Pool(s) in IIS rather than re-starting the WWW Publishing service (which is not transparent to users).

By: James

James — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:02:50 +0000

@Nirav – I’m not sure what the problem is. Given that pptx are giving you a warning in PowerPoint, that means that IIS is successfully serving up the file. So I would check whether the pptx files contain any macros or other content that would cause this warning. (It might be due to an internet zone ID. Try right-clicking the downloaded file and seeing if there is an option to unblock it.) As for the ppsx files, I would use a network analyzer (WireShark or Microsoft Network Analyzer) or web debugging proxy (e.g. Fiddler) to see if the file is being served up by IIS. If it is, I would start investigating on the client to see if there might be a problem. If not, I would check your server logs for the request and returned error codes. HTH.

By: Nirav

Nirav — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:59:46 +0000

Hey James,
Awesome article..unfortunately I am not been able to get out of my trouble.. I have a website and at a place I am allowing admin users to upload a file and users to view that file(pretty simple stuff) now the problem is when admin uploads any of the file say ppt, doc, jpg the user are able to view it correctly with the appropriate program,Now I need to add extension for pptx and ppsx, as per your info I added new MIME types for both extensions. I know its strange but the files with pptx are getting open with powerpoint 2007 with a warning but ppsx files are not opening at all…I hope you get my issue and would help me out this..

Thanks

By: James

James — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:30:48 +0000

I haven't seen this issue, though I'm not a sysadmin by trade. You'll probably have better luck getting an answer on ServerFault than my little corner of the web. Hope you find a solution.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:12:28 +0000

Svend, I’m having a similar issue. If I save docx on my computer with owa, it defaults to a docx file, if i do the same on another computer, it defaults to a zip file. Both have Office 2007 and XP sp3. The OWA server has all the MIME types added properly. Did you find a solution for your problem?

By: Svend Langelund

Svend Langelund — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:59:11 +0000

Hi
Our school / students and teachers are using both Outlook Client 2007 and Owa with succes until Office2007 now is introduced. The users have Iexpl 8.0.

Status just now:
When at user creates and send at DOCX file with OWA – receiving the mail and reading the DOCx works fine in both OWA and O-client.
BUT if the same user sends the same DOCX file with OutlookClient – the recieving person using OWA only recieves a ZIP file .. if the recieving person uses Outlook Client it works fine…
The Exchange2003Entreprise/Win2003 is fully updates (pr 1. sept 2009) and Mime types is added to the default website of Owa.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Sinc
Svend
ps if using Firefox received Docx opens fine..