Administrator Guide

If users experience an issue when opening PDF files they are presented with an option to Save but not Open the file, please review this section for a resolution.

Note: This is for 2010 only and is a restriction put in place by Microsoft.

The following Advanced Setting overrides this behavior as follows:

Setting Name: AllowDocumentsToOpenNotSave
Setting Value: True

Additionally, you may have to follow these steps as well:

1. Go to Central Admin.
2. Click Manage Web Applications.

3. Click on the Web application you want to Change and find “General Settings”.

4. Scroll down the page to locate “Browser File Handling”.
5. Change the Radio box from Strict to Permissive.

6. Click OK.

Note: PDF files can now be opened without saving them first.