OFF2000: Office Programs Ignore System Policy When You Use Open Command

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This article was previously published under Q268778

Microsoft Office 2000 = OF2000

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SYMPTOMS

In the Office 2000 programs listed at the beginning of this article, when you click Open on the File menu, you can browse to restricted drives, even though drive access is restricted via Group Policy.

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RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

276367 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276367/EN-US/ ) OFF2000: How to Obtain the Latest Office 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date        Time    Version     Size       File name       Platform
   -------------------------------------------------------------------
   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
   -------------------------------------------------------------------
   10/26/2000  09:34a  9.0.0.4625  5,595,185  Mso9.dll        x86

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP-3).

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