Turn off "A program is trying to access your Outlook Address book"

[Guest]

In Office XP I use mail merge in Outlook with Word frequently. When I go to
complete the merge I get a message "A program is trying to access your
Outlook Address book...." You have to respond "Yes" to each email which
makes the process painfully slow. How can I turn this off? I know there's a
way because I've done it before. However, I had to re-install Office, and I
can't remember how.

 

[Rick Brandt]

In Office XP I use mail merge in Outlook with Word frequently. When
I go to complete the merge I get a message "A program is trying to
access your Outlook Address book...." You have to respond "Yes" to
each email which makes the process painfully slow. How can I turn
this off? I know there's a way because I've done it before.
However, I had to re-install Office, and I can't remember how.

That cannot be turned off at the client. Your Exchange administrators would
have to configure things differently to eliminate it.

Did you notice that the dialog allows you to "allow for up to 10 minutes"? Have
you tried that instead of just pressing [Yes]?

 

[Joan Wild]

In Office XP I use mail merge in Outlook with Word frequently. When I go
to
complete the merge I get a message "A program is trying to access your
Outlook Address book...." You have to respond "Yes" to each email which
makes the process painfully slow. How can I turn this off? I know
there's a
way because I've done it before. However, I had to re-install Office, and
I
can't remember how.

You should ask your question in either a Word or Outlook newsgroup. This
one is for Access, the database product.

 

[TC]

Juimping in here (cos I can not see the OP's post): check out "Outlook
Redemtion" for a solution to this problem.

HTH,
TC

 

[Rick Brandt]

Juimping in here (cos I can not see the OP's post): check out "Outlook
Redemtion" for a solution to this problem.

HTH,
TC

Redemption does not suppress that message. The prompt that Redemption
eliminates is different.

 

[TC]

Are you sure? Their website says:

"Redemption uses Extended MAPI (which is not affected by the Security
Patch since it is not accessible to the scripting languages) to
duplicate the functionality blocked by the Security Patch. ... you can
access any properties and methods, both blocked and not blocked. For
the blocked properties and functions, Redemption objects completely
bypass the Outlook object model and behave exactly like Outlook objects
with no Security Patch applied."

I'm reading that to says that all of the security-related messages will
be suppressed. If they weren't, I can't see why you'd bother using it
in the first place?

TC

 

[Rick Brandt]

Are you sure? Their website says:

"Redemption uses Extended MAPI (which is not affected by the Security
Patch since it is not accessible to the scripting languages) to
duplicate the functionality blocked by the Security Patch. ... you can
access any properties and methods, both blocked and not blocked. For
the blocked properties and functions, Redemption objects completely
bypass the Outlook object model and behave exactly like Outlook objects
with no Security Patch applied."

I'm reading that to says that all of the security-related messages will
be suppressed. If they weren't, I can't see why you'd bother using it
in the first place?

In my testing the prompt...

"A program is trying to send an Email..."

....is blocked by Redemption. The prompt...

"A program is trying to access your address book..."

....is not. And as you state I did not pursue the use of Redemption further
because blocking "some" of the messages is hardly useful.

 

[www.VoiceInformation.com]

Rick -

We've been distributing a (beta) version of an Outlook anti-spam plugin
(www.TekGuard.com) for a while that gets around the security prompts
using Redemption.

It gives you access to most of the Outlook objects without triggering
the security prompt.

In your case, you would use the Redemption.AddressLists object to
access the information.



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