


Simply select the entry for the web application URL in Credential Manager and delete it by selecting “ remove from vault“.įor step-by-step instructions on how to do this (including screenshots), follow the post Step 2: Clear Your Cache in Credential Manager from a few months back. The culprit in our case was Credential Manager, which may be accessed via Control Panel. When I Googled this error, I came upon a ridiculously weak thread on TechNet that basically says it’s designed that way and that you have to wait for 10 minutes for the lock to clear.

He didn’t have it open and there were no “orphaned” processes of Winword.exe running in Task Manager. Worse still, the message said that the file was locked out… by him. My user was getting this even though the file was not checked out. If you have seen either of the above messages while trying to open a document in SharePoint, you are probably as confused as we were.
