Outlook 2000 Shared Calendar: How to stop the security prompts?

[Mike Reed]

Using Outlook 2000 SP3(under XP Prof SP1) on several networked PCs (no
Exchange server involved), the owner/admin of a shared Calendar gets
an annoying security prompt "A program
is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do
you want to allow this?" everytime a Net Folders update arrives from
a member's PC that just added or modified a calendar item (members
have full Editor permissions).

It's odd, by on my own PC that also runs Outlook 2000 SP3 under XP
Pro, I do NOT get these security prompts when my Outlook receives Net
Folder items that add to my shared Calendar. So I am guessing there
is some difference between our security settings? But, all research
I've done on this topic seems to indicate that one cannot disable
these security prompts in Outlook. But there must be SOME reason that
on one PC I get these annoying security prompts, another PC I don't...

MANY Thanks!

-Mike

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

If you are using Word as your editor and you have Adobe Acrobat installed,
you may be getting the prompt based on the .pdf addin for Word.

See if this information applies:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2002sp3.htm#acrobat

While it applies to SP 3 for Office/Outlook 2002, it may also apply to your
Net Folders problem.


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After furious head scratching, Mike Reed asked:

| Using Outlook 2000 SP3(under XP Prof SP1) on several networked PCs (no
| Exchange server involved), the owner/admin of a shared Calendar gets
| an annoying security prompt "A program
| is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do
| you want to allow this?" everytime a Net Folders update arrives from
| a member's PC that just added or modified a calendar item (members
| have full Editor permissions).
|
| It's odd, by on my own PC that also runs Outlook 2000 SP3 under XP
| Pro, I do NOT get these security prompts when my Outlook receives Net
| Folder items that add to my shared Calendar. So I am guessing there
| is some difference between our security settings? But, all research
| I've done on this topic seems to indicate that one cannot disable
| these security prompts in Outlook. But there must be SOME reason that
| on one PC I get these annoying security prompts, another PC I don't...
|
| MANY Thanks!
|
| -Mike

 

[Mike Reed]

Actually, the PC that has Acrobat 5 on it does NOT experience the
security prompts when new items are received for its shared Calendar.
The PC without Acrobat does - go figure

One possibility: I have installed Word 2003 on my own PC, which is
the one that has Outlook 2000 SP3 and does NOT experience the security
prompts. Maybe installation of just Word 2003 from the Office 2003
suite somehow changed some security settings?

While I am "always scratching my head" about how Microsoft products
sometimes LOSE functionality with each new version or SP, I didn't
write that in my original message. Just curious if/why you added that
blurb to this thread ? Scratch, scratch, scratch ...