MOSS 2007: User cannot check-in or check-out documents. Receive ‘Cannot perform this operation. The file is no longer checked out or has been deleted.’

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Problem: When checking ina document user receives the following error and is not able to check-in the document:
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Additional details:

· Farms in separate domains.

· Able to authenticate to and view sites but we cannot open sites using SharePoint Designer.

· Prompted for authentication and are shown the initial site structure but when we click open, it throws several errors.

· Can duplicate this problem on multiple workstations.

· They are connecting to SharePoint via an IP address with port number

· Also happens when working on SP Designer on the actual Sharepoint server

· Customer able to browse to the problem list identified in the Fiddler output either by hitting the URL or by IP Address and port number in IE

· The one that works is in the same domain

· Test servers for Document center are Cross domain

· User is able to check in same exact files through the browser GUI just fine

· Web App is claims based authentication

· Customer was able to reproduce the error on an additional test farm with the exact AAM settings as the other test farm and in production

· If using FQDN in SPD, it prompts for authentication over and over again on author.dll…401 Challenge on proxy level, not applying URL rewrite does not even go to SharePoint

Resolution: Remove WEBDAV Publishing component from IIS 7.0 Windows 2008 R2.

The WEBDAV component has also been known to cause the following issues

· Office Clients not uploading/saving to SharePoint Sites.

· Explorer View not working on Document Libraries and Lists (Saw this while troubleshooting during live meeting)

· Using UNC paths to access SharePoint lists or libraries does not work.

· Syncing with OneNote to SharePoint Libraries does not work.

· Office Documents opening in Read only mode.

· The following KB articles covers a few of the above listed issues

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2018958

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2171959/

The reason is that SharePoint has it’s own WebDAV and the IIS7 WebDAV publishing interferes with it. Unless the WebDAV publishing Role has been added to the Server for a specific reason, SharePoint should not need it. Note that removing WebDAV does require the server to be rebooted afterwards.  If you do a network trace between the client and the SharePoint server you will most likely see 405 events coming back when Office fails to save the documents to the SharePoint site.

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