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Shared file locking on SBS2008

We have an issue that intermittantly when a user opens an Excel file another user already has open it is not flaged as "locked for editing" and allows the user to open it as well.

I have tried to find a pattern but it seems random but frequent.

Has anyone any ideas?
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Nathan-B2B

Had this issue just the other day actually.

Believe it or not it is the details pane in windows explorer that was causing the issue for us.

Ie when you open up a folder in windows explorer, then click an excel spreadsheet once (to highlight it), at the bottom of the windows exploerer window, it would display details of the file at the bottom of the window.

This caused the file to be locked for editing by anyone else trying to access the file.

To fix it we applied a domain policy.

Group Policy Management Editor
User Config -> Admin Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Explorer -> Explorer Frame Pane.

Turn off Details Pane - Enabled
Turn off Preview Pane - Enabled.

This fixed it for us.

Good luck.
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HI Nathan

I don't think we have the same problem. My problem is that one user can have an Excel doc open and be
working on it. Then another users can open it & start working on it. Instead of getting the message that
the doc was locked for editing & giving them the option to open it in read only mode.

Cheers,

Stu
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the issue was to do with DFS file repilication .

we removed that & its been ok since
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