Using HTTPS to sync with SharePoint on Vista

OneNote 2007 With WebDAV over HTTPS

Rambles In The Brambles — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:59:50 GMT

OneNote 2007 is out, and of course I rushed out to get a copy. It was the main reason that I had participated in the Office 2007 beta, and there were a number of great new feature. One particularly...

re: Using HTTPS to sync with SharePoint on Vista

Robert — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:53:52 GMT

I've been working at getting Onenote 2007 to work via https connecting to a sharepoint site for a while and can't get it work. I get a sync error that no one else on the net has commented about.

See:

Has anyone actually got it working?

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=12009443&m=534003283831&r=534003283831#534003283831

re: Using HTTPS to sync with SharePoint on Vista

Richard — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:55:07 GMT

I am using OneNote 2007 and have a shared Notebook on Sharepoint.

The shared notebook is accessible from OneNote 2007 on XP, but not from another machine running OneNote 2007 on Vista Business. However, I can browse to the OneNote notebook on that machine and am offered a login/password challenge – which is correct.

Using Add Network Place or the connect to OneNote notebook link that OneNote provides just throws up the message "the folder name is not valid"

I have no idea what Webdav is but it seems my problem is very similar (found this through Google - VISTA - Can't use HTTP Web Folders (WebDav).

What can I do?

It is a public Sharepoint site which does not yet support https as far as I can see.

re: Using HTTPS to sync with SharePoint on Vista

mingyeow — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:42:23 GMT

This is absolute nonsense. I am trying to get My vista to work property, and this type of errors just make it a major pain in T ass

re: Using HTTPS to sync with SharePoint on Vista

Robert — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:56:10 GMT

I worked on this with Microsoft for ages and still do not have a fix.

re: Using HTTPS to sync with SharePoint on Vista

Albert — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:56:10 GMT

Thanks, you saved my day. Can't believe this is not mentioned elsewhere. OneNote sync can be a major PITA, but once it works, it's a great program. Thanks again!

re: Using HTTPS to sync with SharePoint on Vista

Albert — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:37:20 GMT

Sorry, gotta withdraw my statement... I thought that switching to httpS would fix this, but OneNote (SP1, on Vista SP1) keeps asking for a password whenever I want to sync with Office Live. Unfortunately, I'm not able to enter my credentials in OneNote, so it won't give me access... Seems to be a bug?

re: Using HTTPS to sync with SharePoint on Vista

Steve Errico — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:42:55 GMT

I have simular issues with Onenote/Vista and shared notebook on sharepoint. others in my group have no trouble accessing or creating notebooks on the sharepoint server but I can not open or create a note book. I can browse and see where it should be but i get "this folder name is not valid". its as though Vista does not recognize the Onenote file type.

Any help would be great. My associate helped me solve this on another vista machine but sadly I did not keep the fix.

I think its a patch but need to find it. Anyone know about this patch?

re: Using HTTPS to sync with SharePoint on Vista

Rudi — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:36:12 GMT

We got similiar issues with Office 2007 using WebDAV from Vista-computers over SSL.

Office 2007 sometimes issues HEAD-requests, which fail, as they are using another User-Agent, called 'Office existence discovery'

What is an recommended HTTP-return code to such requests in order to block Office 2007 from requesting again an login?

Is there anywhere documentation about the two UserAgents 'Microsoft Office Existence Discovery' and 'Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery'

re: Using HTTPS to sync with SharePoint on Vista

Arthur — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:18:50 GMT

This workes for me!

http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2007/11/27/syncing-onenote-to-sharepoint-access-denied-and-automatically-detect-settings.aspx