Where did Tools|Options|Security go in Outlook 2007?

[Brian P. Evans]

Yes, yes, I know...Trust Center, but there's nothing in there that compares
to the old section regarding zones. We have a form that requires information
pulled from an internet site. The only way to do this in 2003 was to go into
Tools|Options|Security and change the zone from Restricted Sites to Internet.

Where did that go? This has made the preview completely worthless to me
because I can't use the form.

Brian

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Since Outlook 2007 doesn't use IE to render HTML messages, it probably makes sense that there is no more access to the Internet Zone. I'm sure security-conscious network administrators will say that's a good thing.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Brian P. Evans]

Hello, Sue.

That's probably true, but we need the ability to display the content of the
IFRAME pulling from the web server. Is there any way to do this in the new
Outlook? At least in the old Outlook, you had the option to do this with the
default setting of no, don't. Will it come back by the time Outlook is
officially released? We won't be able to use the new Outlook if it cannot do
this.

Is there not even a registry hack to do this?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook has blocked IFrame in HTML messages by default for years. In fact, it was the last major vulnerability in HTML message code to be plugged. I can't imagine Microsoft rolling that back to an earlier era. Frankly, I'm surprised that the Internet Zone option was available as long as it was.

FWIW, yours isn't the only HTML mail scenario that I'm aware of that will be broken in Outlook 2007 if the functionality at RTM is the same as in Beta 2. You might want to provide feedback with the Send a Smile tool from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A2E1F4E2-BC0F-4403-B09F-7A677D55F274. This tool will transmit your comments and a screenshot back to Microsoft. As Jensen Harris explains at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/06/23/644160.aspx, all SaS comments do get read and routed to the right people at Microsoft.

I understand that an article is in the works to explain the features and limitations of CSS and HTML support in Outlook mail messages. Watch for it on MSDN, maybe late next month.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers