This one had me in varying degrees of annoyance for an afternoon, so I’m throwing it up here in the hope it may assist someone else in keeping their hair.
We recently upgraded a client to Office 2010. They were on an SBS 2003 network, running a mixture of Windows XP and Windows 7. They use extensively the built- in WSS 2.0 software in SBS, and this threw up a few problems.
The first was easily enough solved – the icons for docx, xlsx etc not showing. The solution is here:
http://therightstuff.de/2006/12/16/Office+2007+File+Icons+For+Windows+SharePoint+Services+20+And+SharePoint+Portal+Server+2003.aspx
The next one was a bit more problematic – the multi upload of files was broken.
Office 2010 replaces the widget used for the multiple upload of files – the core of it seems to be STSUPLD.DLL which provides an ActiveX control for IE, allowing the selection of multiple files.
This proved problematic on some XP machines, either crashing the browser, giving a button which didn’t do anything, or giving a button that would result in just a spinning green symbol, with nothing being uploaded.
After various attempts of reregistering various dll’s, disabling & re-enabling ie add-ins, repairing office, sacrificing chickens etc, I found the solution that worked for me was to revert to the 2007 version of the widget. To do so I did the following:
From programs & features, run a ‘change’ on Office 2010, add remove features, and remove the office tools/Microsoft sharepoint foundation support. Reboot.
Download the sharepoint 2007 designer – it’s free download. (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21581 )
And run an install. In this case I deslected the program itself, but under tools added the ‘microsoft sharepoint service support’
After another reboot, this replaces the upload widget with the ‘tick box’ style selection box, and again allows multiple uploads.
THANK YOU!!! I had been pulling my hair out with this problem! Your solution worked like a charm.