{"id":54,"date":"2008-05-13T07:17:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T14:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/13\/trusting-outlook-add-ins\/"},"modified":"2022-03-04T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T15:34:43","slug":"trusting-outlook-add-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/trusting-outlook-add-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"Trusting Outlook Add-ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Outlook has some security built in to help prevent external applications from accessing its internal data.\u00a0 This data consists of your contacts, email addresses on emails, and others.\u00a0 This is meant to help prevent a virus from harvesting information to then spread itself to other potential victims. Where does this leave the legit companies that provide extensions and Microsoft Outlook add-ins to Outlook?<\/p>\n<p>There are a few different tricks that can be performed on the Microsoft Outlook client computer than can attempt to circumvent the security warnings that the user sees.\u00a0 These techniques have their limit, however, when the client is connected to Exchange Server.<\/p>\n<p>If the client is connected to Exchange Server and they are getting security prompts from an installed add-in, the only solution is to trust the add-in from Exchange.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a great write up about this at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slipstick.com\/outlook\/esecup.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SlipStick<\/a>.\u00a0 SlipStick has a lot of information regarding Outlook and Exchange.\u00a0\u00a0 If you are experiencing the security prompts in this environment, check out the SlipStick site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Outlook has some security built in to help prevent external applications from accessing its internal data.\u00a0 This data consists&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tips"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Trusting Microsoft Outlook Add-Ins | Sperry Software<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Outlook has security built in to prevent external applications from accessing its internal data. 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