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Article ID: 830980 - Last Review: September 26, 2007 - Revision: 2.5

Sensitive information may be exposed when you store ASP pages in a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library

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SUMMARY

If you add an Active Server Pages (ASP) page to a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library, you may make sensitive information available to all users who have access to the document library.

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Documents that you add to a document library in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 can be opened by any text editor and the documents' contents can be viewed. ASP pages may store sensitive information such as logon identities and the corresponding passwords for these identities. Therefore, if you add an ASP page to a document library, all users who have access this document library can also view the whole contents of the ASP page.

We recommend that you do not use a document library in this manner. If you must reference an ASP page from a document library, do so only through a hyperlink on a page that is stored in the document library. More architecture information is available in the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Administrators Guide.

For more information about how to install, to configure, and to administer Windows SharePoint Services, see the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Administrator's Guide. To do this, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A637EFF6-8224-4B19-A6A4-3E33FA13D230 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A637EFF6-8224-4B19-A6A4-3E33FA13D230)

For more information about how to install, to configure, and to administer Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/6181fe5b-90ca-40cf-aade-abd59cf3c9071033.mspx (http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/6181fe5b-90ca-40cf-aade-abd59cf3c9071033.mspx)

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0

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