Outlook XP - "The macros in this project are disabled....."

[Pete Bartling]

Hello,
I have a user who is getting the following error message anytime he tries to
send or reply to an e-mail:

"The macros in this project are disabled. Please refer to the online help or
documentation of the host application to determine how to enable macros."

I have tried lowering the macro security in outlook to "low" and nothing.
Our installations of Office XP are installed through an administrative
installation point on one of our servers. I have looked everywhere and
can't figure out how to resolve this problem.

Any suggestions?

Thank you!!

Pete

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Sincerely,
Pete Bartling

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Cisco Certified Network Associate
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)

 

[SA]

Pete:

1.) Do you know whether there are any VBA projects associated with Outlook
on the users system or are you saying that this is a Phantom error?

2.) Have you check whether the group policy settings for that machine have
been set to have security at a level 2 or 3? (med / high) You do this by
using the group policy editor which is buried in the system32 directory
(gpedit.msc). If there is a group policy set the Office programs will be
displayed.

3.) Of course at the end of the day as a work around if there are VBA macros
or programs, an Administrator can create the a security Certificate on that
machine and attach it to the VBA project in outlook and then tell outlook to
always trust its code signed by that certificate.

4.) If you can't solve it with 2 and their are no VBA known macros in use
(you might just open the VBA editor and see if the user saved something when
screwing around), then I'd post to the Outlook news groups and see if you
get additional suggestions.

Steve Arbaugh
MS Access MVP