Re: Outlook OLE how to bypass that security popup

Normally this sort of question makes the hairs on the back of my neck tingle because of the potential for misuse... Seeing that cormanaz has been around a while (and the fact this wasn't posted anonymously) is somewhat reassuring. So here goes:

AFAIK, there is no way to bypass the Outlook Security Guard directly via the Outlook UI nor by programming the Outlook Object Model. (Because, of course, such a means would be readily exploited by malicious types.) Therefore, I would not expect to find any Win32::OLE-type solutions out there.

However, alternatives may exist. Last year I heard about a program for this purpose called "Express ClickYes", available from Express-Soft. A glance tonight at the web page (redirected), suggests the new incarnation of this program might be RoboTask.

If you happen to have a subscription to Pinnacle Publishing's Smart Access newsletter, a nice article on this subject may be found by searching for "Manipulating Outlook Data from Access" or the author's name, Rick Dobson.

HTH,

planetscape

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Re^2: Outlook OLE how to bypass that security popup by cormanaz (Deacon) on Sep 12, 2005 at 14:16 UTC
Yes I see the problem. What good is security if you can poke holes in it with the object model? On the other hand, one wants to develop and run apps with Outlook. The best solution to the problem would be on Microsoft's end. They could design their pop-up to allow more time, default to the last used value, or better yet to register the app as trusted, like you would on a firewall or something. Maybe I'll post a note on Ms support about this. There is still the question of how Google Desktop Search talks to Outlook without generating the popup. They got by with a little help from their friends at Microsoft, I suppose.	[reply]
Re^3: Outlook OLE how to bypass that security popup by cormanaz (Deacon) on Sep 13, 2005 at 13:53 UTC
Microsoft support board was helpful. Here is a writeup on the "object model guard." It includes a kinda complicated explanation of how you can't really deal with the problem, and in the end references the click-hack Planetscape referred to in his reply. But then there was a pointer to this which appears to be a free app that will make Outlook trust specified apps.	[reply]