We are using SBS2003 and Windows Vista + Office 2007. When we open Office
documents over the network we get a message that the file is in use by
ourselves. Just opening the file and waiting a minute, or closing the dialog
and opening the same file again, solves the problem. Annoying to do this all
the time though. Any comments?

We also note that Vista starts running on the desktop, but the system warns
about not having access to the network, and then connects a few seconds
later. Why does Vista check the connection before actually connecting?

Re: Office 2007 "File locked by user" problem by Cliff

Cliff
Wed May 07 11:25:45 PDT 2008

All I can say is that I run Vista Business, Office 2k7, and SBS 2003 as
well, and do not observer *either* of the problems you've reported. And I
believe they are related. Specifically, if Vista is reporting network
connection issues, but then connecting, that would imply (to me) a network
latency issue. And network latency would explain the slow response to
releasing file locks.

Two suggestions:

1) Install the latest server 2003 updates, specifically I have this one in
mind:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948496

2) Make sure that opportunistic locking is set up properly.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296264/en-us

-Cliff


"Martin L" <MartinL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0179888F-A0B8-4AA9-A060-A6FDB5B3F700@microsoft.com...
> We are using SBS2003 and Windows Vista + Office 2007. When we open Office
> documents over the network we get a message that the file is in use by
> ourselves. Just opening the file and waiting a minute, or closing the
> dialog
> and opening the same file again, solves the problem. Annoying to do this
> all
> the time though. Any comments?
>
> We also note that Vista starts running on the desktop, but the system
> warns
> about not having access to the network, and then connects a few seconds
> later. Why does Vista check the connection before actually connecting?