Help with this KB933666

[phutchinson]

I deployed office service pack 3 to all 900+ machines at work and found out
that this security update renders all wk4 files blocked. I need to find a fix
for this due to my company using a AS400 system and Lotus notes. This file
type is needed to export data from the AS400 so it can be imported into Lotus
Notes, workflow. I read that I could make a registry settings change to allow
specific folders to exempt these types of files , but I can not guarantee
that the users will use this one folder to place the file needed. Plus we
utilize a shared network drive and many of these files are placed at this
location. If anyone has any ideas other than rolling back the Office SP3 or
creating specific folders exempt from this policy please let me know it would
be greatly appreicated.

 

[Jim Rech]

I found I could open and save 1-2-3 files after applying SP3 after following
these steps:

Step 1: Create these new registry nodes:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Security\FileOpenBlock

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Security\FileSaveBlock

Step 2:

In BOTH of them create this Dword entry:

LotusandQuattroFiles

leaving it at the default value of 0


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Jim
|I deployed office service pack 3 to all 900+ machines at work and found out
| that this security update renders all wk4 files blocked. I need to find a
fix
| for this due to my company using a AS400 system and Lotus notes. This file
| type is needed to export data from the AS400 so it can be imported into
Lotus
| Notes, workflow. I read that I could make a registry settings change to
allow
| specific folders to exempt these types of files , but I can not guarantee
| that the users will use this one folder to place the file needed. Plus we
| utilize a shared network drive and many of these files are placed at this
| location. If anyone has any ideas other than rolling back the Office SP3
or
| creating specific folders exempt from this policy please let me know it
would
| be greatly appreicated.
|

 

[Jim Rech]

You can also use the Policy node:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Security\
etc

This takes precedence over the others I posted.

--
Jim
|I found I could open and save 1-2-3 files after applying SP3 after
following
| these steps:
|
| Step 1: Create these new registry nodes:
|
|
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Security\FileOpenBlock
|
|
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Security\FileSaveBlock
|
| Step 2:
|
| In BOTH of them create this Dword entry:
|
| LotusandQuattroFiles
|
| leaving it at the default value of 0
|
|
| --
| Jim
| ||I deployed office service pack 3 to all 900+ machines at work and found
out
|| that this security update renders all wk4 files blocked. I need to find a
| fix
|| for this due to my company using a AS400 system and Lotus notes. This
file
|| type is needed to export data from the AS400 so it can be imported into
| Lotus
|| Notes, workflow. I read that I could make a registry settings change to
| allow
|| specific folders to exempt these types of files , but I can not guarantee
|| that the users will use this one folder to place the file needed. Plus we
|| utilize a shared network drive and many of these files are placed at this
|| location. If anyone has any ideas other than rolling back the Office SP3
| or
|| creating specific folders exempt from this policy please let me know it
| would
|| be greatly appreicated.
||
|
|