Content expiration for office documents

I have the following problem and are wondering if anyone
can help.

Setup:
Win2K
IIS5.0
..NetFramework 1.1

Some of the web-pages contain links to office-documents
(excel) that are also on the web-server. When viewing
these documents, they are put in the temporary internet
files with a content expiration set to 1 day. This is
independent of the content expiration i set on the
directory that holds these files.

I have seen the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 317208
(Internet Explorer Cannot Download Office Documents from
an IIS Server When Content Expiration Is Set to Expire
Immediately). Therefore I have tried expiration like 1
minute, 1 hour, but none of them work.

Please help.
Thanks in advance,

Peter

You should be able to set it to 1 minute. Ensure the server is completely up on windowsupdate (this should not be the issue, but it doesn't hurt). And, try with
a browser up to date. I just worked an issue like this tonight (also the same behavior for .pdf docs), and everything worked fine.

Thank you. I hope this information is helpful.

Tim Coffey [MSFT]

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| I have the following problem and are wondering if anyone
| can help.
|
| Setup:
| Win2K
| IIS5.0
| .NetFramework 1.1
|
| Some of the web-pages contain links to office-documents
| (excel) that are also on the web-server. When viewing
| these documents, they are put in the temporary internet
| files with a content expiration set to 1 day. This is
| independent of the content expiration i set on the
| directory that holds these files.
|
| I have seen the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 317208
| (Internet Explorer Cannot Download Office Documents from
| an IIS Server When Content Expiration Is Set to Expire
| Immediately). Therefore I have tried expiration like 1
| minute, 1 hour, but none of them work.
|
| Please help.
| Thanks in advance,
|
| Peter
|