REPOST: The “Name ActiveX Control” problem

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I've moved: https://www.point2share.com

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I received a comment earlier this week regarding an issue a reader had found with the new Point2Share site. It's something that I had been meaning to sort out, but which I had forgotten because I had "fixed" it on my machine. I think this screen shot describes it best:

The yellow status bar may already be familiar to a number of you. So what's it's all about then?

Well, from what I can gather, "Name.dll" is used to integrate presence information into SharePoint from your IM client. This is of course really useful functionality, particularly inside the corporate firewall, however, on an external facing site like this one its usefulness is a little limited.

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