How do I open a shortcut in Outlook 2003. The shortcut points to.

[Guest]

I have a 50MB data file in file server, and want to send to all internal user
via mail. Then I create a shortcut from the 50MB data file, and copy the
sortcut to Outlook 2003, and send out to all internal users. However, they
can access the shortcut.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

I'm assuming you meant they can't and the second is what type of shortcut
did you create? The reason that I ask is that desktop shortcuts (*.lnk) are
blocked. http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm might be of
some help to reconfigure outlook to allow access to said file type.

Also keep in mind that another type of shortcut is a URL. For example, in
the message you could use file://\\server_name\share\folder\filename.ext.
This type of link might work, but I would definitely test it.