Office/Outlook 2003 Attachment Handling

[jadgate]

I've installed Office 2003 in a small network/office setting using the ORK and tried to relax the attachment blocking settings using various tweaks and registry hacks found by googling and whatnot. I ran into a situation with how Lookout (er, Outlook) handles Access File attachments that drove me crazy. What I found was this: you could put Word, Excel, PP attachments in the Level 2 category (allowed to open from Lookout). However, no matter what I did (including putting it in Level 2 and various registry hacks) for Access file extensions attachments, I couldn't open them in Lookout (I got the red security box). My only option was to save it somewhere on the HD, then open it from there. Since I didn't need to do this with other attachment types, I think this is really a stupid design by MS, unless there is a way around it. I would think that this is the kind of thing that would generate a lot of help desk calls in a large company, so I can't believe MS would be so stupid, but who knows, the security holes in Outlook have been bad for a long time, maybe they went too far in the other direction.

Does anyone know a way around this?

Thanks,

Jim

[Astalavista]

attachment block is there for a reason.

did u slipstream the updates yet?

[tussock]

The only program I know to get around the problem of Level 1 and 2 options is a program called Attachment Options.

"Attachment Options is a COM add-in for Outlook 2000 SP3 or higher, Outlook 2002, and Outlook 2003 that provides a user interface for changing which file types are restricted as Level 1 attachments. Level 1 attachments are hidden by Outlook, and cannot be seen, saved or opened from Outlook items. Moving an attachment extension to Level 2 enables the user to see the attachment and to save it to the file system. The attachment saved to the file system can later be opened by the user."

Info:

http://www.slovaktech.com/attachmentoptions.htm

Download is :

http://www.slovaktech.com/Files/AOsetup.exe

Download is approximately 1.39 MB

Hope that is some help to you.