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Life and work has kept me busy for several weeks and is my excuse for not posting anything in quite some time. It's not much and probably not a very good excuse, but it's the one you're getting. One of the things that's been keeping me busy is that I've been doing a lot of documentation lately. Over the past 3 years I haven't documented the many InfoPath forms I've developed and am now paying the price for waiting so long. It isn't so hard as it is time consuming, not as exciting, and a lesson in how it doesn't take long to forget why you built it that way. Of course, InfoPath doesn't have any kind of documentation tool built in to it and you can't exactly add comments to your forms. So I've been using Microsoft's Word software to copy screen captures and type explanations where necessary. It's not the most amazing thing ever, but it gets the job done.
But every now and then a login box pops up and asks me to log in to the SharePoint server. It doesn't happen very often, but it's annoying because I never asked Word to connect to the server. I did a Google search and found this article outlining the same problem, though much worse than my experience with it. In the article, Ernst mentions that the issue occurs when you use a particular feature of Office to connect to a SharePoint server, but I've never used that feature directly. Somehow just by opening a document located in a SharePoint Document Library causes the issue. So I'm here to document the issue again and inform you how to remove this annoyance.
The problem stems from a feature where Office remembers the locations you've created or accessed previously and tries to connect them every now and then. To fix this, you will need to use regedit.
Until next time:
Work smart. Play well.
Life and work has kept me busy for several weeks and is my excuse for not posting anything in quite some time. It's not much and probably not a very good excuse, but it's the one you're getting. One of the things that's been keeping me busy is that I've been doing a lot of documentation lately. Over the past 3 years I haven't documented the many InfoPath forms I've developed and am now paying the price for waiting so long. It isn't so hard as it is time consuming, not as exciting, and a lesson in how it doesn't take long to forget why you built it that way. Of course, InfoPath doesn't have any kind of documentation tool built in to it and you can't exactly add comments to your forms. So I've been using Microsoft's Word software to copy screen captures and type explanations where necessary. It's not the most amazing thing ever, but it gets the job done.
But every now and then a login box pops up and asks me to log in to the SharePoint server. It doesn't happen very often, but it's annoying because I never asked Word to connect to the server. I did a Google search and found this article outlining the same problem, though much worse than my experience with it. In the article, Ernst mentions that the issue occurs when you use a particular feature of Office to connect to a SharePoint server, but I've never used that feature directly. Somehow just by opening a document located in a SharePoint Document Library causes the issue. So I'm here to document the issue again and inform you how to remove this annoyance.
The problem stems from a feature where Office remembers the locations you've created or accessed previously and tries to connect them every now and then. To fix this, you will need to use regedit.
- Close all Office programs to be safe.
- Hit Win+R and type regedit
- Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\Portal\Link Providers\
- This should have one or more sub-keys with the same name as the offending sites Office keeps trying to connect to. Delete the offending keys and close regedit.
Until next time:
Work smart. Play well.
