This Sharepoint Beef also serves as an introduction to The Series. As such, I've been a SPS admin now for two years. Bottom line is I think that WSS/WEBDAV backend rocks, which is all I wish to say at the moment about Sharepoint Server. I should also say I'm still using SPS 1.0 and debating whether to move operations to W2K3 Sharepoint Services or SPS 2.0. More on that later.
Regarding the beef, this is my biggest one. You want to open a Sharepoint folder using a URL so you can use all that sweet enhanced folder document profiling and versioning, and you get
But don't fret, there's a KB article on it.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this behavior, click to clear the Open as Web Folder check box, or type a shorter address.
“Oh, gosh! THANKS!!!!“
Then there are those poor schmucks like myself trying to build systems around the limitation as this and the other (of many) google threads attest, with responses like “this will be fixed in IE6.0, or the IE 5.5 SP2.”
I'm so embarrassed by imposing this limitation on my users that I say Microsoft imposed the 100-character URL length due to security concerns.
In two years I'm been doing my SPS admin gig I have never seen any response as to why this limitation exists nor why Microsoft has not addressed it. My singular hope is that someday I see a fix or someone explains why we decided to stop opening folders when a URL reaches100 characters.