Sharepoint does not recognize files saved in Office 2007 B..

Hi,

We're using Sharepoint via Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 SP1 to
host our companyweb. Our desktop users are beta testing Office 2007
and when they save their files to companyweb, the icons do not show
correctly, instead users see a small white icon with the Microsoft
symbol (as in the server doesn't know which application with which to
associate). When users attempt to click on the file, they are prompted
to open or save a "Compressed (zipped) Folder".

The expected behaviour is to have the file open directly into the
appropriate application i.e. Word 2007 or Excel 2007. If the file is
saved to the desktop, it remains as a zip file. By renaming the file
extension to .docx or .xlsx, then the file opens accordingly.

What gives?

I concur. I am simply surprised that I can't seem to locate anyone
else that is having this same problem. I tried adding additional MIME
types to IIS but no luck. it's as if IIS sees the files as zip
archives (which they are) and tries to render it in this format to the
client. I would like to override this behaviour. I have since edited
IIS > Web Sites > Properties to not compress the data with no luck.

It's not the end of the world. Just one heck of an annoyance to my
boss. Which becomes my annoyance.

PS sorry for the double post.
--
michael

Jeff Teel wrote:
> My first response would be that to use the new Office version with Windows
> SharePoint services is that SharePoint will need some updating. You are
> using beta software so you have to know that there will be things that may
> not work as expected.
>
> Jeff
>
> "michael" wrote in message
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We're using Sharepoint via Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 SP1 to
> > host our companyweb. Our desktop users are beta testing Office 2007
> > and when they save their files to companyweb, the icons do not show
> > correctly, instead users see a small white icon with the Microsoft
> > symbol (as in the server doesn't know which application with which to
> > associate). When users attempt to click on the file, they are prompted
> > to open or save a "Compressed (zipped) Folder".
> >
> > The expected behaviour is to have the file open directly into the
> > appropriate application i.e. Word 2007 or Excel 2007. If the file is
> > saved to the desktop, it remains as a zip file. By renaming the file
> > extension to .docx or .xlsx, then the file opens accordingly.
> >
> > What gives?
> >