Ol2007 Shortcuts Pane Security Prompt

[C. Moya]

For years, I've used Outlook's Shortcuts feature to house links to some
external programs (like Fax Console, Quicken, etc). In Outlook 2007, the
Shortcuts Pane gives all sorts of security prompts every time I click on a
shortcut... it makes the whole feature useless. How do I get rid of the
prompts?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

AFAIk, you can't. Try adding the exe to a button as a hyperlink - I don't
think it prompts - but I could be wrong.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Hyperlinked buttons now prompt too, opening an OFT from a link like that
won't even work after the prompts, you get a final one that says forget
about it.

 

[C. Moya]

That cuts the Shortcuts Pane usefuleness to almost zero. What was the
purpose of changing this functionality. It makes no sense.

 

[C. Moya]

Actually... the more I think about it... and tinker for an alternative...
the more I'm increasingly mad. I can't stand this sort of thing. I swear the
Microsoft has hired nothing but dolts in the last 3 years. I guess the
justification is "nobody uses the shortcuts view anyway".... so the solution
is to make it even MORE uselesss???????? Geez.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

No, the justification is that it's a security issue. It relates to lots of
other security issues. If your common practices involved those sorts of
things then you will either have to not update or change your practices.

 

[C. Moya]

I would love for you to explain to me how the Shortcuts Bar presents a
security issue.

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-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com

No, the justification is that it's a security issue. It relates to lots of
other security issues. If your common practices involved those sorts of
things then you will either have to not update or change your practices.

 

[C. Moya]

I just created macros to do it and put all the things I previously had in
the Shortcuts bar in under the Go menu. Not as nice... but still allows me
to use Outlook as the central starting point for all my PIM related stuff
(Fax Console, Quicken, etc).

P.S.
I'm all for increased security... but some of the things they've been doing
make no sense to me... and don't really increase security at all (I just
caught my first zero-day virus the other week... caused by a flaw in a
Visual Studio component... Ha!).

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-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com

AFAIk, you can't. Try adding the exe to a button as a hyperlink - I don't
think it prompts - but I could be wrong.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

MS doesn't tell me everything, in fact they barely tell me anything. The
explanation we were given is that this sort of thing was a security risk.
Whether or not it is I can't say.

I disagree with lots of what's going on with the security initiatives. I
find it absurd that as the network admin and owner of everything everywhere
in my network, server and computers that I can't do everything I want in
Vista unless I completely disable user access control. Does MS care? No, of
course not. I just completely disable UAC in every Vista virtual machine I
set up.