Mark said:
One of our users wants to know if it's possible to put an additional
password prompt when accessing their contacts in Outlook. We have
Exchange 2003 and use Outlook 2003 clients in cached mode
exclusively. he's not worried about issues with OWA or his
smartphone. So far I've found no way to do this within an Exchange
mailbox, but let me know if I'm wrong. Thanks!!!
Any code that I can think of to do this would be local to the machine.
Since the user is obviously very security conscious, they are locking their
machine every time the leave it. So, in order for me to get to the point
where I'd need to put in a password for the Contacts folder, I would already
have had to break their network password. And if I've done that, I'd just
connect to their mailbox from a different machine, where this code wouldn't
exist.
Now, if you moved the contacts off of the Exchange server and put them in a
pst, you could password protect the PST and that would prompt you each time
you opened Outlook, and then you wouldn't need to worry about local access
vs. generic network access and you could even then add more code into
Outlook to require a password. But, at that point: a) You're not getting
backups and b) in order to access the data, a 'bad guy' would need physical
access to the machine and, frankly, once you have physical access to a
machine, the 99.999% of security is out the window, password or no. Oh, and
c) things will get weird with default contact stores.
