Office 2003 fixed

SOFTWARE RECYCLER Microsoft has issued a fix for a certificate problem in Office 2003 that prevented it from opening protected documents.

The Vole had warned that Office 2003 would not be able to open documents that had been protected with its Rights Management Services (RMS) until it issued an update.

Apparently it did not matter that you were authorised to open the document, the "computer says no" and coughs.

If you tried to save documents with RMS, which is used to prevent sensitive documents from being opened by unauthorised users, the computer would also say no to that too.

It was all caused by the expiration of an Information Rights Management (IRM) certificate. The Vole wrote a hotfix and it is now being distributed.

If your sysadmin forgets to apply the hotfix, you will get a warning "Unexpected error occurred. Please try again later or contact your system administrator." µ