[ms office - 2016] Strangely-named files appearing in teachers Google Drive and personal network drive

[OffAndOnAgain]

 

Hi all,

 

Since moving to Office 2016, a handful of our teachers have been getting lots of XSL Stylesheet files with coded names appearing in whichever folder their Word document is in. They seem to be deletable without consequence but reappear soon after opening the Word document.

 

I've done a bit of investigation and it seems like these are temporary files that for some reason aren't able to be created in their usual location (presumably on the C drive), and are instead defaulting to the folder containing the Word document the teacher is using.

 

From what I've seen, all affected people are able to see and access the C drive of their school-allocated laptops (something that we used to make invisible), so I'm not sure why Office isn't writing to it.

 

Of course I might be wrong with this theory, but any other ideas would be very welcome!

[Protec]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/word-2016-creates-xsl-stylesheets-when-editing/b13d9b5d-7894-48de-9e25-f75c6cccd0be

[MoZaRa]

Hi,

 

I've had the same issue this week at one of my schools. For me I think it was due to the permissions the user could only write to certain folders. It had started creating temporary files in the C Drive as you stated above, I uploaded all necessary files to OneDrive, removed the profile and re added it back on. Push the rights back out using a GPO and that seems to have sorted it.