I was working with a customer as part of a public folder migration to SharePoint. When during a discussion with the end users we encountered an issue that the business was not prepared to deal with. The business unit whose folders were set to migrate wanted to continue to drag and drop from Outlook into their published SharePoint Folders. This is where the issue started.
Outlook 2007 will allow for drag-n-drop from the following:
- Tasks to a Task List
- Calendar to a Calendar List
- Contacts to a Contact List
What is missing here is Mail directly into a SharePoint List or SharePoint Library. “What do you mean.” Outlook does not support drag-n-drop to a SharePoint List or Library. You will receive a read-only error.
Because of Web-Dav this is not possible without setting up synchronization or a third party utility. Todd Klindt has several blog entries on Outlook and Sharepoint one of which discusses synchronization.
Drag-n-Drop into a Document Library
Manage your document libraries from Outlook 2007 using drag-n-drop. If you have a SharePoint Library synchronized with Outlook, you can drag e-mail attachments directly to it. Select and drag it to the folder. This will be sent automatically to SharePoint when the next synchronization occurs.
If that solution does not work for you there are several vendors with solutions.
I have not fully tested any of the above add ons for SharePoint but have heard great things about all of them.
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Threre’s also SharedLook, which you can use by Drag & Drop using it’s rule engine.