IE 6 Cache problems with Moss

Oy. You have no idea how much I worked on that issue...

So let me explain what was wrong, and how we solved it :

The problem - all end users who use IE 6 sp2 gets after a few moments of browsing the Moss sites, javascript error which led to CSS error ( actually it's not being downloaded well ).

We didn't notice this problem in IE6 sp3, so we thought we are almost half way to solve this issue. But the problem was now only in computer who works on windows 2000 operating system ( in which you can't install IE sp3 there .... ).

After doing more searching, we realized that this issue happens only because of the static compression that made by the IIS that being enabled automatically by Moss installation. After disabling this option the problem was gone.

So to sums things up, the files that were compressed by the IIS weren't available to the end users who used the windows 2000 computers, in other words they couldn't work on moss websites.

Three last comments -

1. You can still avoid it by changing the expiration date of the page and then postpone this problem from occurring or go 10 years back and force the IE to work on the HTTP 1.0 protocol.

2. By disabling the static compression, Im sending to the users files that are almost five times bigger than the size I usually send ( we are talking about all the CSS / JS files such core.css / ie55up.js and etc ).

3. You should disable the dynamic compression, it's not recommended by MS ( its written in the MSDN ). Yeah , I do ask why the hell they put it there on the first place ?

Problems editing SharePoint site with IE7

Saw it over several of the end users over my clients.

The cause for that issue is kind of simple -

Just open your browser On the the menu choose :
Tools -> Internet Options, switch to Advance Tab, and disable "Disable script debugging (Internet Explorer)".