How to add your SharePoint Online sites or Open with Explorer URL to trusted sites

Authored by: Support.com Tech Pro Team

1. Introduction

This guide will help you how to add your SharePoint Online sites or Open with Explorer URL to trusted sites

2. Resolution

Make sure that the SharePoint Online or Open with Explorer URL is added to your trusted sites zone in Internet Explorer. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. Depending on your version of Internet Explorer, do one of the following:
3. Select the Tools menu, and then select Internet options.
4. Select the gear icon, and then select Internet options.

1. Select the Security tab, select Trusted sites, and then select Sites.

1. In the Add this website to the zone box, enter the URL for the website that you want to add to the Trusted sites zone, and then select Add. The URL will be for one of the following websites:
2. SharePoint Online
3. OneDrive for Business
4. Open with Explorer (uses a -files or -myfiles format)
5. For example, enter https://<contoso>.sharepoint.com and https://<contoso>-files.sharepoint.com for a site. Or, enter https://<contoso>-myfiles.sharepoint.com and https://<contoso>-my.sharepoint.com for a OneDrive for Business library
6. In this example, contoso represents the domain that you use for your organization 
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8. Repeat this step for any additional sites that you want to add to this zone.
9. To make sure that "Open with Explorer" works correctly, you must include the SharePoint site URL or the OneDrive for Business URL in addition to the "-files" (for a site) URL or the "-myfiles" (for a OneDrive for Business library) URL.

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2. After you add each site to the Websites list, select Close, and then select OK