office 2000: must have delete permissions??!??!?

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russ

greetings.
maybe someone can shed some light on what seems like an
impossiblity.


1) ms kb article 211632 says that the location for office
temp files CANNOT be changed.

2) Office files exist all over a server

3) In order for users to modify office files (say, a word
doc) in a directory. That user must have delete
permissions to the files in that directory otherwise the
temp file word creates will not be deleted upon exit.

4) office files are in almost every directory.

conclusion: I need to allow my users to delete whatever
they want because office needs a user to be able to delete
the files in the directory she created/edited them in???!

this seems crazy but MS says it is so -- how do you secure
a server!?

Anyone who has gotten around this, please let me know how -
i can be reached @ (e-mail address removed)

Thanks much,
Russ
 
Russ,
Took me a minute or two of thought. This may not be the best solution, but it should work.

Create a batch file and schedule it to run every night. It will need to have the following lines in it

attrib -h %directory%\~$*.doc
del %directory%\~$*.doc

%directory% should be self explanitory...just insert the path to the directory with the files. *\~$*.doc may work...but i'm not too good with batch stuff, so don't quote me on that.
 
Hello Russ,
I'll need some clarification.
How is it possible that your users have files in several locations on your
server?
Are you running office from the server?
Is this a terminal server?
Are your users storing profiles on the server?
What's the profile path?

The article you mentioned only states that Word stores temp files in the
temp directory.

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