Sharepoint opens read-only documents for users with Office 2010

Question

I had a strange problem with Sharepoint 2010, when users with access permissions always tried to open in read-only mode when trying to open a document. I looked at the farm configuration and everything seems fine. I also noticed that users with Office 2013 can open and edit documents without any problems. At that moment I knew that this was due to the version of the client office, and not to Sharepoint. After many studies, I found a solution.

• On the client computer experiencing the problem, click "RUN", then enter "RegEdit".
• go this way HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Office \ 14.0 \ Common \ Internet
• Right-click and create a new "DWORD" entry and give it the name "FSSHTTPOff"
• Double-click the new entry and enter a value of 1.

After that, you may need to restart your computer, but it is not always required. after a user with office 2010 can edit documents in Sharepoint.

Note that in order to apply this change to all users, your IT administrator will need to push this change as a network policy change.

Hope this solution helps someone :)

Eyad

Answer 1

This workaround worked for me; despite the name. :)

Excel opens in read-only mode after upgrading to Windows 8 using Office 2010

For comparison, I am on Windows 10 with Office 2016.

Steps (copied from the link above):

Create the following registry key. This is a client machine issue NOT related to SharePoint Server.

• Open regedit.exe
• Naviagate for the following key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Office \ 14.0 \ Common \ Internet] "FSSHTTPOff" = dword: 0000001
• Click Modify → Create → DWORD with the name FSSHTTPOff (without quotation marks).
• Click "FSSHTTPOff" and enter a value of 1
• Close all Office applications and browser sessions.
• Try to reproduce the problem.