I have found many, many, MANY! idiosyncrasies with Internet Explorer 64-bit and Sharepoint 2010. Here is one that I had not yet encountered but was easily worked around.
When trying to import a spreadsheet as a list in SharePoint 2010 (Site Actions > View All Site Content > Create > Import Spreadsheet) you will receive the following error in Internet Explorer if you are using the 64-bit version.
This Feature requires Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later, and Windows 95 or later.
Considering I haven’t used either of these products in probably 10 years, I figured this was yet another problem with IE 64…
Internet Explorer 64-bit error message
The fix is simple enough… Use the 32-bit version. It will work fine.
At some point I will add in other small details that do not work with SharePoint in IE 64 and list as many as I can find.
Cheers!
JUL
About the Author:
I have been in Information Technology Professional for 15 years and have settled into the realm of Microsoft SharePoint. I have been a SharePoint Administrator for an International Corporation based out of Michigan since 2011. My reasons for starting this site, much like anyone else who focuses on SharePoint, is to share what I have learned along my career path as an Administrator for a medium sized company. Most of what I have been jotting down for the past year are issues that I had come across while working with an inherited SharePoint 2010 environment. There are pitfalls that I will discuss along with some of the things that we had to develop on our own that SharePoint didn't quite do on its own. I hope you will find the content both helpful and entertaining. Cheers!