Outlook 2003 Automation Security Control via Group Policy ?

[sbs]

A client of ours has an application which is seeking to send out emails
via Outlook in an Exchange 2003 environment..

Whenever the emails are generated the user is being asked to allow the
process to occur for every email that is being generated.

"A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in
Outlook.
Do you want to allow this?"

Therefore, if the application generates 100 email messages, the user
has to respond 100 times.

I know that one method to overcome this is to use the Outlook Security
Features Administrative Package from the Office Resource Kit but this
is having no effect.

I believe that this is because Office 2003 was originally deployed to
all the workstations using Group Policy from the Windows 2003 server.

The above Administrative Pakage settings do work on a PC that had
office 2003 installed manually.

Is this assumption correct ?

I have also added the administrative templates for Office 2003 to my
Group Policy Management Console but cannot locate the settings that
replicate the "programmatic Settings" tab in the Outlook Security
Features Administrative Package

Does anybody know how to configure group policy or which registry
settings I need to implement in order to manage this issue?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The admin pack works only in an Exchange environment. You have to set up the
security options in the Outlook Security Settings public folder on the
Exchange server. There is no group policy to manage the programmatic
security settings, only to enable or disable the CheckAdminSettings registry
value.

 

[sbs]

Thanks Sue,

Where is the policy setting to enable or disable the CheckAdminSettings
registry value?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

User Configuration / Administrative Templates / Microsoft Office Outlook
2003 / Tools | Options / Security / Outlook virus security settings

TIP: Open the .adm file in Notepad to search for a known registry value and
find where it appears in the policy settings hierarchy.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers