Annoying Security Notice

[leonard hopkins]

Please tell me their is a way to disable this. We use the
MS Project Workgroup addin when sendning project tasks.
Now everytime a task is sent out from project, this damn
message appears on every task item that is sent adding
unwanted time. This is very annoying and I want to know
how to stop it.

New Programmability Behavior
When you install the update, programmatic access to
Outlook is restricted. If other applications try to use
Outlook on your behalf, you receive a warning message and
you are prompted to confirm what the other application is
doing. You receive warning messages when another
application tries to do anything in the following list:
Send mail on your behalf
Access your address book
Access e-mail names from your messages
Access e-mail information from your contacts or other
types of items
Save your messages to the file system
Search your messages for content
Use Simple Messaging Application Programming Interface,
Simple MAPI, to send messages without your consent

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

The security dialogs that pop up when an application tries to access certain Outlook properties and methods are designed to inhibit the spread of viruses via Outlook; see http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#autosec. They cannot be simply turned on or off with a user option or registry setting.

However, Outlook 2003 does not show security prompts on three specific types of applications:

-- VBScript code in published, non-oneoff Outlook forms

-- Outlook VBA code that uses the intrinsic Application object

-- Outlook COM add-ins properly constructed to derive all objects from the Application object passed by the OnConnection event

In earlier versions of Outlook, standalone users can use a free tool called Express ClickYes (http://www.express-soft.com/mailmate/clickyes.html) to click the security dialog buttons automatically. Beware that this means if a virus tries to send mail using Outlook or gain access to your address book, it will succeed.

If you're the administrator in an Exchange Server environment, you can reduce the impact of the security prompts with administrative tools. See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/admin.htm

If it's an application you wrote yourself and either your application needs to support versions besides Outlook 2003 or your application runs extenal to Outlook, you have these options for modifying your program to avoid the security prompts (roughly in order of preference):

-- Use Extended MAPI (see http://www.slipstick.com/dev/mapi.htm) and C++ or Delphi; this is the most secure method and the only one that Microsoft recommends. However, it applies only to COM add-ins and external programs; you cannot use Extended MAPI in Outlook forms or VBA.

-- Use Redemption (http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/), a third-party COM library that wraps around Extended MAPI but parallels the Outlook Object Model, providing many methods that the Outlook model does not support

-- Use SendKeys to "click" the buttons on the security dialogs that your application may trigger. See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#autosec for a link to sample code.

-- Program the free Express ClickYes (http://www.express-soft.com/mailmate/clickyes.html) tool to start suspended and turn it on only when your program needs to have the buttons clicked automatically.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Cheryl Fischer]

I have gotten good results by using Express ClickYes, as mentioned by Sue
Mosher. However, you must use code (available from the mfr's website) in
your application to turn it on and then, most important, turn it off when
your app has sent the task.