[THIN] Re: Major issue with Excel 2002...

  • From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:00:05 -0000

I don't have my terminal / citrix server users have any write
permissions to the system drive, and they use Excel just fine and
peachy.

Admittedly, that's Office 2000, rather than XP, but I would apply the
same rationale for Office XP.

Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spencer Sun [mailto:ssun@xxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 12 November 2003 22:18
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Major issue with Excel 2002...
> 
> Check the file perms on the system drive.  I believe when we 
> had this we found a folder that they need write access to 
> (Don't remember which one at the moment.)
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bruce Jarrett-Norton" <bjarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 4:00 PM
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Major issue with Excel 2002...
> 
> 
> Do they have more than 1 instance of Excel open?
> I have seen similar problems when users try to open more than 
> 1 instance of Excel. We had to teach them if they wanted a 
> new workbook open to open it from with in their current Excel.
> 
> Also, as we use published apps we restrict each user to only 
> have 1 instance of Excel open at a time.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Lynch [mailto:lynch00@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:00 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Major issue with Excel 2002...
> Importance: High
> 
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> I have a client that is having some major issues with opening 
> Excel documents.  They get the following error message:
> 
> Microsoft Excel cannot open or save any more documents 
> because there is not enough available memory or disk space.
> 
> Now, we have examined all of the servers, and the pagefiles 
> are set correctly, there is plenty of disk space for the 
> users on the OS volume. We are not redirecting the 
> Application Data folder.
> 
> All of the servers are Windows 2000 with SP3.  Most are 
> patched up to the point of the RPC exploit.  They all have 
> the same MF hotfixes.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris

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