Many corporate SharePoint environments (read, “virtually all SharePoint users”) lean on the Windows Explorer view to move large numbers of files inside the Document structures of SharePoint. The SharePoint web interface for bulk file manipulation is weak.
However, SharePoint’s native file interface using Windows Explorer depends on proprietary ActiveX hooks inside Internet Explorer, not standards-based web technology. The deprecation of Internet Explorer in August 2021 signs a death notice for the native file interface. As a heavy user of the native file interface, this is… scary, to say the least.
SharePoint Sync could be a viable solution for some users. Several references to it being a replacement are available, though it is often described as an imperfect solution. (Agreed!) The thread “Microsoft Edge | Sharepoint | “Open with Explorer” not available. ” is linked here:
Particularly poignant posts:
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KrisSpringer-8482 answered • Aug 26 2021 at 2:15 PM
Although the ‘answers’ to the original question do give the functionality, they do it through IE. Newer versions from Win10 and Win11 come with IE not even installed. So the ‘open with IE’ options are not even available in Edge until you go into the ‘Turn Windows features on or off’ section in the Windows OS and install IE. This is a major problem when business users use Windows Explorer all day every day to interface with their company Sharepoint system. As previously stated, the Sync feature has major flaws because it duplicates the cloud files onto the local machine causing disk space issues on SSD’s as well as security issues by having files on laptops that should not be stored there. Not to mention the general sync functionality issues that are a known problem. Then there’s file permissions which are a whole separate topic. The point is that the ‘Open with Explorer’ option requires IE still because of the way IE is integrated in the Windows OS under the surface. My guess is that Edge will never allow it because Edge is just a browser, not an integrated part of the OS like IE has been forever. It’s unfortunate that Microsoft keeps doing this sort of thing to business users, but it seems right on par with their model.
