*IMPORTANT* More on .chm issue

There has been a recent tread pertaining to .chm help files stored on a
Windows SharePoint Server or SharePoint Portal Server and the contents
will not display. A KB article was identified to have the solution.
That solution works but has a flaw and it is known my MS. They will
sending out an article shortly.

We tried to implement the solution with no success. We then contacted
a Performance Support Engineer with MS's Enterprise Platform Support.
He said the fix was to create a registry key with the following values:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\1.x\ItssRestrictions]
"MaxAllowedZone"=dword:00000003

This opens the zones: local machine, local intranet, trusted sites and
internet.

MS (in writing) declared that this solution is NOT RECOMMENDED because
it opens you to internet vulnerabilities. You can still store .chm
files in WSS but to view you will have to OPEN and SAVE to a local
drive. Basically, that is what the letter will say.

Shack

Mike
Thu Jul 28 23:08:42 CDT 2005

Thanks for the heads-up Shack !

(In two minds about whether to add a WSS FAQ item as this will soon be in a
KB)

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
WSS FAQ http://wss.collutions.com
please reply to the newsgroup only

"Shack" <dtooley@allstate.com> wrote in message
news:1122573278.605245.297710@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> There has been a recent tread pertaining to .chm help files stored on a
> Windows SharePoint Server or SharePoint Portal Server and the contents
> will not display. A KB article was identified to have the solution.
> That solution works but has a flaw and it is known my MS. They will
> sending out an article shortly.
>
> We tried to implement the solution with no success. We then contacted
> a Performance Support Engineer with MS's Enterprise Platform Support.
> He said the fix was to create a registry key with the following values:
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\1.x\ItssRestrictions]
> "MaxAllowedZone"=dword:00000003
>
> This opens the zones: local machine, local intranet, trusted sites and
> internet.
>
> MS (in writing) declared that this solution is NOT RECOMMENDED because
> it opens you to internet vulnerabilities. You can still store .chm
> files in WSS but to view you will have to OPEN and SAVE to a local
> drive. Basically, that is what the letter will say.
>
> Shack
>

Robert
Tue Oct 18 11:50:06 CDT 2005

I'm sure this solution has been found and posted by now, If not here is mine. I had the sa=
me problem, I corrected it by: 1. Saving the .CHM file to my hard drive, 2.Open web brow=
ser (IE & Firefox, worked on both), 3.Use the web browser open file function to open th=
e file, when prompted save a second copy to your hard drive. The second copy when opene=
d works, 4. Delete the first copy, so you don=E2=80=99t confuse the two.