Re: Warning: Beware of Office 2003 Service Pack 3

Thanks. The workarounds do not work.

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GaryK


"kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ.SBS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gary Karasik wrote:
Not possible.

Gary, see this KB for more information and guidance in resolution or
workaround ;

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941636/




"kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ.SBS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gary Karasik wrote:
Hi,

Since installing Office 2003 SP3 (which cannot be removed), none of
my clients can open files created with apps from earlier versions of
Office. The error is, "You are attempting to open a file that was
created in an earlier version of Microsoft Office. This file type is
blocked from opening in this version by your registy policy
setting." There is no informaton available about any registry policy
setting
to undo this change, and there is no workaround I can find other
than the extremely labor-intensive necessity to create for each
user an "Exempt" directory and manually edit the registry to add
this location. Then the user has to move the file to that directory
before Office apps will open it.
Under the guise of "Security," MS are attempting to force people to
upgrade their Office installs.

There is a new Office SP3 adm group policy file with many new
settings. I was looking at it earlier today and trying to decipher
the intent of some new default values. I had to refocus on a client
issue and was not able to continue, but is it possible that the new
Group policy templates were loaded into your server?

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