Software Update for Web Folders

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Overview
This download enables you to update the Web Folders component in Microsoft Windows operating systems, and provides additional functionality including:

Support for Secure Socket Layers (SSL) with client certificates
Support for non-ASCII character encoding enhancements
Support for additional security enhancements

Download: Software Update for Web Folders

View: Description of the Software Update for Web Folders

Additionally you can also choose to deploy the SP4 beta, details of how you can obtain thhis are outlined below:

How to Obtain
To participate in the SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4) Beta, you must fill out and submit a survey before you can gain access to the beta files. To access the survey, follow these steps.

Visit the following Microsoft Beta Web site: https://beta.microsoft.com
Note: You must have a Microsoft Passport account to access this Web site.

Type s2ksp4 as the Guest ID.
Note: The Guest ID is case-sensitive.

Under You are Enrolled in the Following Beta Programs, click SQL Server 2000 SP4.

Expand Survey in the left pane, click SQL Server 2000 SP4 Nomination, and then complete the survey.

(2 replies) #1 craZySoldier on 25 Jan 2005 - 10:56

ok... first post

#1.1 jpalo on 25 Jan 2005 - 11:07

I'm sooo happy for you!

#1.2 D-j-M on 25 Jan 2005 - 19:08

I can only wish that further people slag you off craZySoldier. You're a moron.

(1 reply) #2 Hurmoth on 25 Jan 2005 - 13:55

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows ME, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Installer version 2.0 or later. Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and Microsoft Windows XP include this version of the Windows Installer.

I'm guessing this includes Windows XP Service Pack 2

#2.1 Lurchybaby on 25 Jan 2005 - 15:38

Safe guess. I decided to try to install it anyway. It installed w/o any issues on my XP SP2 build.

(1 reply) #3 c e 3 2 0 on 25 Jan 2005 - 19:46

This is sort of a Office / Windows update, I had a look and the version of the dll that I matched was 9.0.0.6228 (Office 2000 SP3).
So probably worth an update for older office users like myself

#3.1 hosebeast on 26 Jan 2005 - 05:44

"Web Folders" is simply Microsoft's "friendly" name for a RFC 2518 compliant DAV client implementation. (After all, your grandmother would be willing to use "Web Folders" but would she be willing to use an "RFC 2518 compliant DAV client implementation"?)

Web Folders was written by the Office group because they are the first ones who needed DAV functionality (to be able to publish Office documents to web servers seamlessly thru Common File Dialogs, in a firewall-friendly way).

Since then, DAV functionality has become important for custom Exchange collaboration/workflow apps, XML web services (and thus the whole slew of related products like Visual Studio, BizTalk Server, SQL Server, etc.).

Therefore, Web Folders became part of Windows, starting with Windows XP. This is no different than many other Windows technologies which originated in the Office group. OLE document linking and embedding was originally written by the Excel group and then added as part of Windows 3.1. Things like "Tool Tips" (the yellow pop-up hints in the GUI) were started by Office 4.3 and carried into Windows 95. Windows Installer was originally created for installing, repairing, and updating Office but was made into a generic tool and became part of Windows starting with 2000.

(1 reply) #4 tiagosilva29 on 25 Jan 2005 - 20:40

It's safe to install in non-English systems?

#4.1 hosebeast on 26 Jan 2005 - 05:57

The KB article does not list localized files but if you extract the MSI from the EXE and view the Files table in Orca, you can see that it installs localized files for locale 1033 (U.S. English).

So the answer is NO, it is not safe to install this particular download on non-English systems. Wait for a localized version.

#5 Mx² on 25 Jan 2005 - 21:02

Cool, thanks!

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