{"id":980,"date":"2012-08-28T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T09:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=980"},"modified":"2012-08-28T10:13:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T09:13:11","slug":"files-in-dfs-fqdn-paths-open-with-security-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"Files in DFS FQDN paths open with security warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/filesfromdfswontopen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-981\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/filesfromdfswontopen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/filesfromdfswontopen.png 971w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/filesfromdfswontopen-300x88.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having recently setup DFS-R and DFS name spaces we found that our users were reporting that a security warning was popping up every time they opened any file from our DFS shares (example above).<\/p>\n<p>The warning in Word 2010 was<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The file \u00a0originated from an Internet location and might be unsafe. Click for more details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The silly thing about it is its not an In<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ter<\/span>net location its an In<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tra<\/span>net one.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out because I was using a FQDN to connect to our DFS shares Windows was picking up the files as coming from the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>This issue is in fact documented on the Microsoft KB and details can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/303650\">here<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/303650\">http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/303650<\/a>\u00a0(but with no pictures).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The simple solution<\/strong> to this problem is to <strong>manually define your FQDN as a Intranet Zone in Internet Explorer<\/strong> (screen shots below show how to do this via GPO).<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently setup DFS-R and DFS name spaces we found that our users were reporting that a security warning was popping up every time they opened any file from our DFS shares (example above). The warning in Word 2010 was The file \u00a0originated from an Internet location and might be unsafe. Click for more details. The silly thing about it&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=980\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[136,137],"series":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","category-software","tag-dfs","tag-intranet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}