Excel & File Permissions

Just a quick post about a very odd problem we had today...

If you need to be able to save a Microsoft Excel document which already exists (ie update a document) then you will need the Delete permission for the folder in which it resides.

There is a microsoft KB article relating to this here which only shows this problem as affecting Excel 97 & 95 but research online shows it also affects 2000 / XP & 2003.

Novell

If a Novell server abends / crashes and will not respond to any commands or open an emergency console you can hit left shift + right shift + alt + esc all at the same time.

This will bring up a prompt, type q then hit return.

This will get you back to a DOS window where the server can safely be power cycled.