Office 2007 docx and OWA saving as zip file

[Gene]

Hello,

When a users sends an email with a docx attachement that is opened in
outlook client all is fine. When it is opened with OWA, the person is asked
to save the document before they open it by right clicking and selecting
save. When this is done, the default extension is a .ZIP If after the
save you change it to .docx it will open fine, but if you do not, it will
extract to a bunch of xml files, which I know is the "new" way that 2007
creates files.

My quesiton is why is OWA defaulting to a .zip save file for this??

I saw this posted to the Outlook Discussion Group, but that person was
firmly directed to this group, where they have asked a similar question, but
it has not been answered yet either.

Thanks

Gene

[Andy3691]

I was going to submit the same question, can someone answer why this is
happening? My Exchange is 2003. what can I do to prevent this?

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

The admin can fix it site wide by adding the office 2007 file types to the
MIME settings on the server. This will tell the browser how to read it. Some
also have an issue with Winzip and other tools picking up on it
(uninstalling the zip tool helps).

On the user side, IE has an option to open files based on content not
extension - add the owa url to the trusted (or local intranet) list and
disable this option. It's in IE's tools, options, Security tab, trusted
sites - look near the bottom of the Custom level. This should not be
necessary if the mime settings are correct.

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[Andy3691]

I am lost/confused. I understand about adding the office file types but to
what server? and where would the mime settings be?

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

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