You Cannot Open Links to Renamed Web Folders from an Office "File Open" Dialog Box

After you apply the Q311740_deu_admin.exe fix, if you open the File Open dialog box in a Microsoft Office program, click My Network Places in the Look In list, and then double-click a link to a Web folder on a computer that is running SharePoint Portal Server, you may not be able to gain access to the Web folder.

For additional information about the Q311740_deu_admin.exe fix, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: This problem may occur if:

• The link in My Network Places points to a folder that is located on a level below the SharePoint Portal Server documents folder. -and-
  
  
• The name of the link was edited so that the first character in the name is a number.

The same shortcut works correctly if:

• You click the shortcut in the My Network Places folder. -or-
  
  
• You open the shortcut in the File Open dialog box in Microsoft Wordpad or Microsoft Notepad.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001.
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
The English version of this fix has the following file attributes or later:
After the fix is installed, the following files have the listed attributes or later: NOTE: Because of file dependencies, this update requires Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001 To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001.
This problem was first corrected in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001 Service Pack 2.