8.1 Using Sealed Documents With Microsoft SharePoint

This section describes how Oracle IRM Desktop supports Microsoft SharePoint in various versions of Microsoft Office.

See the Release Notes for any late variations to the levels of support described in this section.

Microsoft Office 2000 and Microsoft Office XP

For these versions of Microsoft Office, sealed files in Microsoft SharePoint are opened read-only, regardless of user rights.

To edit the file, copy it to your local file system (for example, the My Documents folder of Windows Desktop), make your changes, save the file, then upload it to Microsoft SharePoint.

Microsoft Office 2003 and Later

For these versions of Microsoft Office, sealed files in Microsoft SharePoint will open as editable if you have sufficient rights (and if the Microsoft SharePoint server has been modified for use with Oracle IRM), except in the following cases:

• the file has been locked by another user;

• you have only restricted rights to modify the sealed file, such as Annotate or Edit Tracked;

• you are using Microsoft Office 2010 to open documents with the formats .sdocx, .sdocm, .sdotx, or .sdotm from SharePoint 2010.

In these cases, the sealed file will open read-only. To edit a file that has been opened read-only, copy it to your local file system (for example, the My Documents folder of Windows Desktop), make your changes, save the file, then upload it to Microsoft SharePoint.

See Section 1.3, "About Rights".