2.1.2.3 File Operations

The file operations protocols that are implemented by SharePoint Products and Technologies provide basic browse, open, edit, save, and rename file operations. These capabilities are exposed through clients such as Windows Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office 2013. At a high level, two primary technologies provide this interoperability: Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions and Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol (WebDAV). Earlier versions of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows implemented both FrontPage Server Extensions and WebDAV, whereas the newer versions of these clients are moving towards implementations that use only WebDAV. A description of how Office 2013 use these protocols to communicate with SharePoint Products and Technologies is available. For more information, see [MS-OCPROTO] section 2.1.2.

SharePoint Products and Technologies also supports the ability to extract document metadata and link information from specific document file formats. This is called document property promotion.