Peaches Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 Update: Microsoft patches Office 2003 lockout bugIt didn't extend digital certificates' expiration date; fix must be manually downloadedBy Gregg KeizerDecember 14, 2009 03:12 PM ET Microsoft on Saturday fixed a bug that locked out Office 2003 users from accessing documents safeguarded with the company's rights management security technology. Apparently, Microsoft forgot to extend the expiration date of the digital certificates used to control access to sensitive Office 2003 documents On Friday, Microsoft acknowledged the problem with Office 2003 and Rights Management Service (RMS) that had blocked users from opening or saving protected documents. By Saturday, the company had rushed a hotfix into place. All Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook documents from the Office 2003 suite that had been locked with RMS were unavailable as of Dec. 11, Microsoft said Friday night in a post to the Office Sustained Engineering blog. Users saw the message, "Unexpected error occurred. Please try again later or contact your system administrator" when they tried to open or save RMS-protected documents.More on this topic at ComputerWorld - http://www.computerw...?taxonomyId=145 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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