re: Security Office File Validation Backport for Office 2003 and 2007 User Experience

AP68 — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:05:57 GMT

How will this "office file validation" backport be distributed? Via an office security update?

The backport will be distributed via the Microsoft Download Center as well as the Microsoft Update Service. Here is more information covering the deployment scenario.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2011/02/25/security-office-file-validation-backport-deployment.aspx

re: Security Office File Validation Backport for Office 2003 and 2007 User Experience

TheGift73 — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:01:24 GMT

What is the additional footprint on this?

I like the idea of it, but deploying this on multiple machines with varying hardware (RAM, processing power etc).

Also, the way I read this it's 'run once', but will the finished program be running in the background?

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Thanks for the question. The footprint were adding is the gatekeeper definition file that the respective Office program will use to compare the document. We only call the DLL when the "File|Open" request has been submitted by the user. Basically Office File Validation is a yes/no function but a really important function. There won't be a service that is constantly running in the background.

HTH,

Modesto