I’m getting ready to deploy Office 2010 Service Pack 2 out to my customers desktop fleet.  I’m going to journal the list of problems I find along the way.

Issue 1- Open File – Security Warning

I’m surprised that I’ve not stumbled across this issue before.  It’s caused by the “Zone Identifer” feature.  In short, if you download a file from the internet, you’ll probably see this warning.  I’m running the SP2 install from a VBscript file, which is why I’m seeing it.

There are a couple of ways around this:

1. Copy the file to a FAT formatted drive.
   This causes the Zone Identifier flag to be stripped off.
2. Change the SEE_MASK_NOZONECHECKS environment variable
   As documented in Microsoft KB889815
   It works.
3. Don’t use VBscript “Use a command script”
   Also from KB889815.  Not an option for me unfortunately
4. Use the Microsoft Sysinternals Streams utility to remove the Zone Identifier flag.
   Bit of a brutal approach, particularly if you have other information stored in the alternative data streams.
5. Use the ZoneStripper utility.

Next (potential) issue: "Error 1718. File was rejected by digital signature policy"

Related posts:

Semi-regular web-link clearance – May 2010 (2) Office 2007 & 2010 reporting "File in use" on Novell Netware file shares. Semi-regular web-link clearance – January 2010

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