Local admin rights when Edit locally

Question

Hello, all!
We have the same problem as in
Local Admin rights to "Edit Locally" ?
"The end users do not have administrator rights on their local PCs , they logon to the domain server with restricted rights. When it comes to portal, when trying to edit a document with "Edit locally" it is not possible to do is even if the user has all the rights for the document in the Portal KM configuration. When we make the user local admin, everything is OK"
We are on SPS14, Windows XP SP2. Domain users can run corresponding applications and can create dirs or files in a temp directory. We also utilize env. variable SAPKM_USER_TEMP but with no success.
Could yoã please suggest, how to find rights needed to execute Local Edit. Are there any way to trace this Docservice ActiveX?

Answer 1

Hello Roman,
here a note which describes a solution for a user account wuth restricted rights:
The Edit Locally activex will be installed based on following
installation steps:
The browser will recognize that the KM DocService activex has to be
started.
In case of the activex isn't installed on the the PC, it will be
downloaded from the KM server (...etc/docservice/docservice.cab)
The browser will extract two DLLs from the docservice.cab file
(docservice.dll and sapkmprogressplayer.dll) and register them on the
local PC. To see if the installation succeed you can open within the
browser following dialog: Tools/Internet Options/Settings/View Objects,
look for program file SAP KM DocService Control.
Registry keys in following areas will be created:
Area HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT:
HKCR\AppID\{5F8983A6-347C-46B9-BA7A-1B87E5DAE0BC}
HKCR\ProgressPlayerMod.ProgressPlayer
HKCR\ProgressPlayerMod.ProgressPlayer.1
HKCR\CLSID
HKCR\TypeLib
Area HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ModuleUsage\C:/WINNT/Down
Downloaded Program Files/DocService.dll
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Code Store Database\Distribution Units\
When finishing these steps successfully the installed version can be
located within the browser dialog Tools/Internet Options/Settings/View
Objects SAP KM DocService Control and den KM DocService will
start loading the document content from the KM server and starting the
corresponding application for editing.
Installation with restricted user accounts:
With restricted user accounts e.g. no access rights to create registry keys in the area of HKCR or HKLM etc., which lets the described installation fail, following installation procedure leads to success:
Register the needed DLLs manually on the PC (e.g. via a shell command script) with a user account having enough access rights.
1.1 Create an installation folder (don't use /windows/system32) on the PC and copy the DLLs (docservice.dll and sapkmprogressplayer.dll) to it (extract them from docservice.cab with a tool e.g. winzip).
1.2 Open a command shell on this installation folder.
1.3 Unregister possible existing versions with the following command:
"regsvr32 docservice.dll /U " and "regsvr32 sapkmprogressplayer.dll /U "
1.4 Register the both DLLs with: "regsvr32 docservice.dll" and "regsvr32 sapkmprogressplayer.dll "
1.5 If the two registration steps fail check the permissions to write
into the system registry.
1.6 The installation folder do not need special permissions, the linkage to the DLLs will be done via the system registry.
1.7 Additionally the following setting is mandatory to succeed the installation:
Disable the "ActiveX Version Check" function within the KM Configuration
SystemAdministration->SystemConfig->KnowledgeManagement->
->Configuration->ContentManagement->Utilities->Editing->LocalEditing-> ActiveX Version Check (Uncheck the checkbox)
Setting a different TEMP directory:
In cases that it is problematic to use the standard %TEMP% directory, setting the environment variable SAPKM_USER_TEMP pinpointing to a corresponding directory path (e.g. X:\SHARES\USERS\xxx\CheckedOutDocuments) will be also supported. If the access to that directory fails the standard %TEMP% directory will be used as fallback.
Hope this helps,
Michael
Message was edited by: Michael Braun