SharePoint on Remko's Blog

Track who created the TreatAs registry key

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:41:56 +0000

Last week I wrote about an error message the users received when opening documents from SharePoint.

The article showed how to fix the problem but it didn't feel good that I didn't know where this "TreatAs" value was coming from.

I figured that I could read the timestamp key from the registry to see at what/date time the value was created. This value can be read using the RegQueryInfoKey API but there are various tools that can read it.

Edit Document requires a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible application

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:23:11 +0000

Today I was troubleshooting a message that appeared when a user tries to edit a document from SharePoint on a Citrix XenApp server.

The user browsed to a word document on Sharepoint and selected “Edit in Microsoft Office Word” from the Combobox:

This would present the following error message to the user: