Office 2010 Application Security

re: Office 2010 Application Security

Jamie from GMARK Ltd. in the UK — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:40:40 GMT

We've have been looking for some insight as to how to continue to deliver PowerPoint files which contain VBA code that is inserted by our flag ship product ActivePresentation Designer. Prior to Office 2010, we invested in digital certificates from VeriSign to give users the ability to trust us a publisher, a one time operation that meant no further security alerts were displayed. With the advent of Protected View, this benefit for our company seems to have vanished which means the products we have developed no longer work as we are unable to deliver any of these types of products from our web site without users having to understand this new MSO feature and hence we loose them almost instantly or they create additional support costs for us. Is there a commercial grade solution to this issue that disabled Protected View when a publisher is know to be legitimate?

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Advance Excel User — Thu, 13 May 2010 10:55:54 GMT

Hi development Team,

I am facing problem in opening the excel file through IE6.0 SP3. When i open the files, IE(may be)creates index inside content.IE5. when i open it from IE and this local temp temp directory. It results in :

.xls file locked for editing by 'userName'.

I googled but didn't find any working solution.

This problem is only with excel file and IE6 SP3.

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Semyon — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:10:29 GMT

I cant open a few PowerPoint Presentatins in my Office 2010 ... Now i know why.Thank you

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Derek — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:30:42 GMT

I don't have 2010 yet. However, if the first poster is correct, I must echo his statement. Sheet level security is critical to me. I've developed an 'application' within an excel file with all the intellectual property aspects hidden and 'protected'. Our intent is to resell this template.

Yes, an Excel expert could eventually build a workbook that mimicks what we have built - but they should have to work as hard for it as we did, rather than be able to steal it.

It is also a valid point that we could have built it using C# and distributed it as an executable, but that's extra work and customer support.

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Josef Kohout — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:47:52 GMT

I'm using MS Office 2010 BETA for some time without any problem, enjoying the enhanced protection. However, last week when my W7 (64 bit edition) updated, files downloaded from the internet cannot be opened! All I got is a spash screen "opening in protected view ..." and Word / Excel / Prowerpoint freezes. Once I tried to wait 12 hours and the document didn't open. There is neither alert message nor question box displayed. Simply I cannot open documents. All I could do to overcome this problem was to turn off the security completely. This is not right. Does anybody has experienced the same problem?

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Eddie — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:36:16 GMT

EVERY file attachment I attempt to open from Outlook gives that warning and will not open. Example: Word do attached to e-mail. I click to open. I get the error "Office has detected a problem with this file... cannot be opened" message. It doesn't give me an option do use protected view. I click OK to the error message, go back to the e-mail and double-click the attachment and it opens fine. What a pain. I have gone into the Trust Center and unchecked all the options. Still same problem. EVERY attachment I try to open behaves the same.

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Dave Perryman — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:50:51 GMT

Protected View: More annoyance and less work done, cant get rid of it and dont need it! Seems to detect everything regardless of Trusted Locations, regardless of how many ticks in boxes!

not impressed

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Sergio Segal — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:15:44 GMT

I'm getting the following error message progressively in all my PPTs:

"Office File Validation detected a problem while trying to open this file. This file could potentially contain harmful content and has been blocked from opening."

The message should say what to do to fix the issue. Blocking with no way out is unacceptable.

Unless I receive a workaround I will be forced to abandon MS Office 2010.

Many messages above mention the same issue. Is MS taking care? After the Vista scandal MS should take problems seriously.