After installing the Office 2010 beta, I noticed a considerable decrease in performance when browsing a BPOS SharePoint directory as a mapped drive. This decrease in performance was to the tune of about 30 seconds for the contents of a directory to populate.
To further my disappointment, I was also unable to open Word documents from the same SharePoint site. I would receive the error “Could not open https://…”
A quick visit to a couple search engines came back with a blog post by Tony Pagnusat which gives an incredibly simple solution which worked for me:
In Local Area Network Settings of Internet Explorer (Tools, Internet Options, Connections, LAN Settings) try un-checking the Automatically detect settings checkbox.
Step by step guide:
- Open Internet Explorer
- Click “Tools”
- Click “Internet Options”
- Click the “Connections” tab
- Click “LAN Settings”
- Uncheck “Automatically Detect Settings”
