Exchange/Outlook security problems Password What??

[XxLicherxX]

Hello everyone,


I hope one of you Exchange/Outlook users out there can help solve this
problem.


This has all started out by needing to turn off the "Something's
looking at your email addresses" nag box in Outlook 2003, in order to
get a macro written in Outlook 2003 to work properly.


According to what I have read and hopefully understood from Microsoft's

support documents ("Customizing the Outlook Security Features
Administrative Package" is that these nag boxes can be bypassed with
the Outlook Security Features Administrative Package.


I have set up a form in a folder called Outlook Security Settings,
which is a public folder. I have Administrator/Owner/Everything access
to it. I was able to successfully publish the form to the folder.


Whenever I try to make new settings for either the default or Exception

groups, I get an error when I try to save.


"The Access levels on this security setting cannot be saved, probably
because of an invalid password. This setting is currently set as a
default setting for all users. You should either delete the setting or
save it again, and type the correct password."


Invalid password?? HUH?? I was never once asked to enter a password,
not can I find a place in th form to enter one. Where is this coming
from?


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you are working with Outlook 2003 in Cached Exchange mode, try switching to a profile that doesn't use Cached Exchange.

 

[XxLicherxX]

Hi Sue,

Thanks for your response.

The error that I got before this one told me to turn off exchange
cached mode. I also tried getting the hotfix described in KB 885227,
but no luck.

Dave

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Did you create the Outlook Security Settings folder as a top-level public folder?

What about the mail profile that you're using? Is it accessing the mailbox associated with your Windows logon account?

What does your macro do? Does it derive all its objects from the intrinsic Application object? Does it use CDO?

Also note: The newsgroup interface you are using apparently does not quote earlier messages in the thread, making your latest message so short on detail that you risk not getting the answer you're looking for. Please take the time to quote the original message.

 

[XxLicherxX]

Hi Sue,

I have double checked the location of the Outlook Security Settings
folder using the Exchange System Manager. (This is where I originally
created it) it is in Folders -> Public Folders... The root of the
public folders.

My mailbox name is the same as my logon name.

My macro just uses VBA code, I don't think I have anything from CDO in
it. The only thing I use from the Application object is:

"Set olNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")"

(I think I got this from you on the Outlook VBA programming newsgroup,
Thanks again)

I don't understand what could be bringing up the error that complains
about my password. Are there settings in Outlook where I would need to
specify a password for something like this? I have double-checked
permissions on the folder, taken ownership of the object under my
username, and tried saving my form into another folder. These all have
the same result. I just don't get it.

I have been posting through www.groups.google.com... Is there a certain
tag or anything like that I need to use to indicate its quoted text,
(Google has a link that says "Show Quoted Text") or is it ok to simply
do this:

"Hello everyone,

I hope one of you Exchange/Outlook users out there can help solve this
problem.

This has all started out by needing to turn off the "Something's
looking at your email addresses" nag box in Outlook 2003, in order to
get a macro written in Outlook 2003 to work properly.

According to what I have read and hopefully understood from Microsoft's


support documents ("Customizing the Outlook Security Features
Administrative Package" is that these nag boxes can be bypassed with
the Outlook Security Features Administrative Package.

I have set up a form in a folder called Outlook Security Settings,
which is a public folder. I have Administrator/Owner/Everything access
to it. I was able to successfully publish the form to the folder.

Whenever I try to make new settings for either the default or Exception


groups, I get an error when I try to save.

"The Access levels on this security setting cannot be saved, probably
because of an invalid password. This setting is currently set as a
default setting for all users. You should either delete the setting or
save it again, and type the correct password."

Invalid password?? HUH?? I was never once asked to enter a password,
not can I find a place in th form to enter one. Where is this coming
from?

Any help would be greatly appreciated
"

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

So, in your macro, what statement triggers a security prompt? We may be able to solve the real problem, which is getting the code to run without prompts..

The only time I've seen anything like that password prompt is when the mail profile of the user working on the security forms doesn't match the Windows login account. You might try creating a new profile to see if it behaves differently.

There's no special quoting tag. It's just harder to follow the discussion if the relevant information is not kept together in one message.

 

[XxLicherxX]

Hi Sue,

I beleive that the following statements are what are causing the
security prompt:

msg.CC
msg.SenderName
msg.To

"msg" is the variable name for the MailItem object passed into this
Macro. Is there an alternative way of pulling this information out of
an email?

Thanks

"
Hello everyone,


I hope one of you Exchange/Outlook users out there can help solve this
problem.


This has all started out by needing to turn off the "Something's
looking at your email addresses" nag box in Outlook 2003, in order to
get a macro written in Outlook 2003 to work properly.


According to what I have read and hopefully understood from Microsoft's



support documents ("Customizing the Outlook Security Features
Administrative Package" is that these nag boxes can be bypassed with
the Outlook Security Features Administrative Package.


I have set up a form in a folder called Outlook Security Settings,
which is a public folder. I have Administrator/Owner/Everything access
to it. I was able to successfully publish the form to the folder.


Whenever I try to make new settings for either the default or Exception



groups, I get an error when I try to save.


"The Access levels on this security setting cannot be saved, probably
because of an invalid password. This setting is currently set as a
default setting for all users. You should either delete the setting or
save it again, and type the correct password."


Invalid password?? HUH?? I was never once asked to enter a password,
not can I find a place in th form to enter one. Where is this coming
from?


Any help would be greatly appreciated.
"

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

And where does that MailItem object itself come from?

 

[XxLicherxX]

Hi Sue,

The MailItem is the incoming email message to the inbox folder.

"
Hello everyone,
I hope one of you Exchange/Outlook users out there can help solve this
problem.
This has all started out by needing to turn off the "Something's
looking at your email addresses" nag box in Outlook 2003, in order to
get a macro written in Outlook 2003 to work properly.
According to what I have read and hopefully understood from Microsoft's

support documents ("Customizing the Outlook Security Features
Administrative Package" is that these nag boxes can be bypassed with
the Outlook Security Features Administrative Package.
I have set up a form in a folder called Outlook Security Settings,
which is a public folder. I have Administrator/Owner/Everything access
to it. I was able to successfully publish the form to the folder.
Whenever I try to make new settings for either the default or Exception

groups, I get an error when I try to save.
"The Access levels on this security setting cannot be saved, probably
because of an invalid password. This setting is currently set as a
default setting for all users. You should either delete the setting or
save it again, and type the correct password."
Invalid password?? HUH?? I was never once asked to enter a password,
not can I find a place in th form to enter one. Where is this coming
from?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
"

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

So this is a procedure you're invoking with a "run a script" rule? In that case, use the EntryID to return a "trusted" MailItem, as in this example:

Sub RunAScriptRule(MyMail As MailItem)
Dim strID As String
Dim olNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim olMail As Outlook.MailItem

strID = MyMail.EntryID
Set olNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olMail = olNS.GetItemFromID(strID)
MsgBox olMail.To

Set olMail = Nothing
Set olNS = Nothing
End Sub

olMail will be "trusted" with regard to the security prompts, because it is derived from the Appliction object.

 

[XxLicherxX]

Hi Sue,

I changed my code to reflect what you put in your last post and my
problem is solved! My macro runs nice and smoothly now. Thank you very
much for your help with this situation.

Dave