Office 2000 programs can browse restricted drives (302753)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Excel 2000
- Microsoft Access 2000
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
- Microsoft Publisher 2000
- Microsoft Word 2000
- the operating system: Microsoft Windows 2000
- the operating system: Microsoft Windows XP
- the operating system: Microsoft Windows Server 2003
This article was previously published under Q302753 SYMPTOMS After you establish a group policy to restrict access to a
drive by selecting the Hide these specified drives in My
Computer and Prevent access to drives from My
Computer options, you can use a Microsoft Office program to browse and
read the contents of the drive.CAUSEThis problem occurs when your operating system is Microsoft
Windows 2000. The problem occurs because of the way that policies are applied.
When you restrict access to a drive by establishing a group policy,
restrictions apply to users, but they do not apply to services and programs.
Because the browse feature is performed through a program such as Microsoft
Excel or Microsoft Word, the program is permitted to view the drive. As a
result, when you define a group policy and select the Hide these
specified drives in My Computer and Prevent access to drives
from My Computer options on a specific drive, the drive is read-only
with respect to Microsoft Office 2000 programs.RESOLUTIONTo resolve this problem, obtain and install Microsoft Office 2000 Service
Pack 3 (SP3) or a later version. The problem does not occur in any version of Microsoft Office XP or Microsoft Office 2003.
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
276367
How to obtain the latest Office 2000 service pack
The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel. Date Time Version Size File name Platform
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10/27/2000 01:30a 0.0.0.0000 544,256 MSO9.msp x86
10/27/2000 01:37a 0.0.0.0000 2,904,576 MSO9_Admin.msp x86
05/04/2000 04:53p 0.0.0.0000 3,059 Readme.txt x86 After the hotfix is installed, the following files will have the
listed attributes or later: Date Time Version Size File name Platform
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10/26/2000 09:34a 9.0.0.4625 5,595,185 Mso9.dll x86 MORE INFORMATION The problem that is described in the "Symptoms" section
applies to all versions of Office 2000 before Office 2000 SP3.
Note After Office 2000 is installed
and the group policy is applied, you can configure a Microsoft Office program
to browse and open files on a restricted drive. However, you cannot save files
to the drive.REFERENCES
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
268778
Office programs ignore system policy when you use Open command
Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 1/6/2006 |
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Keywords: | kbprb KB302753 |
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