Opening an OFT file posted on web site

[Guest]

Suddenly my OFT forms that are posted on a web site are not working. When
anyone tries to open them, they get an error message saying the page is not
available or that they don't have rights to view the page. These forms are on
an internal web site available to everyone in the company. The links are all
correct.

What could be causing this problem?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

What version of outlook? Did you recently install any updates?

 

[Guest]

We have Office 2003 (Outlook 2003) and Windows XP. We do security updates all
the time, but other than that, no changes that I'm aware of.

What version of outlook? Did you recently install any updates?

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
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Suddenly my OFT forms that are posted on a web site are not working. When
anyone tries to open them, they get an error message saying the page is
not
available or that they don't have rights to view the page. These forms are
on
an internal web site available to everyone in the company. The links are
all
correct.

What could be causing this problem?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

That's an odd error but you do need to know that, beginning with Outlook 2003 SP2, users can work with most .oft form templates files only by opening the template from the Tools | Forms | Choose Form dialog, browsing for User Templates in File System. This means that if the .oft file is sent as a message attachment, the user must save it to the local hard drive first.

The article at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=907985 explains this change in more detail, suggests best practices, and provides registry keys that can return Outlook 2003 to the older, less secure behavior.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers