Disallow auto-create sites through sharepoint?

[dannyboy]

Hi,

I have been posting a lot recently. I lurked for a very long time, 5 months, messing around with alfresco. Instead of hitting my head against a wall I thought I should start posting here. Hopefully it will be less painful

The problem:

When I create a shared workspace in Microsoft word 2003, a new sharepoint site is made. I want to disable this functionality. I will be creating all the sharepoint sites necessary. Is there a way to disable this auto generation of sites while still keeping the sharepoint service?

2nd bonus problem:

Also, in Vista, if I attempt to join "http://url.com:7070/alfresco", an error comes up saying "Invalid URL". This works just fine in Windows XP…

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825213

Is there a workaround for this?

[norgan]

hi,
as a workaround for your 2nd Bonus problem - when opening a document from a sharepoint site in Office, a webdav connection is usually created, when none exists beforehand. Maybe you can use that.
Second idea, does that happen as well, when you do a "net use" command ?

Regards, Norgan

[dannyboy]

I was able to connect to 'server.com:7070' with my webdav client but that didn't allow me to open the location in word. Also, I can't seem to use port numbers in 'net use'.

Thanks for the reply though!

[norgan]

Hmm … "servername:7070/alfresco"  should be it. Works fine with me here.