Exchange security settings

Ulf Lövgren

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Nov 17, 2004, 8:36:47 AM11/17/04

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We have developed an Outlook add-in which is based on the techniques
Exchange Client Extensions, MAPI and Outlook Object Model. The different
techniques are used in the following ways:

a.. Exchange Client Extensions is used for connecting our add-in to
Outlook. We use more or less only the method IExchExt::Install().
b.. Outlook Object Model is mainly used for creating customized toolbars
and buttons.
c.. MAPI is used for all other communication with Outlook, e.g. creating
folders, creating messages, reading and writing properties etc.

A customer of ours has configured the security of the Exchange server to a
degree where our Outlook add-in is refused to be loaded by Outlook. The
about dialog of Outlook reports "Security Mode: Administrator Controlled".

What settings on the Exchange server needs to be done in order for our
add-in to run?

// Ulf

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)

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Nov 18, 2004, 2:24:14 PM11/18/04

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So you created both an Exchnage Client Extension (ECE) and a COM addin?

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Ulf Lövgren

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Nov 25, 2004, 6:19:11 AM11/25/04

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No we only use ECE as addin, i.e we do not use the COM technique. However,
we use OOM and MAPI when communicating with Outlook and performing the
actions that we need for our addin functionality.

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Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)

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Nov 29, 2004, 2:03:06 PM11/29/04

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How does "our Outlook add-in is refused to be loaded by Outlook" manifest
itself?
Do you install your ECE using registry or an ECF file? Did you try deleting
the extend.dat file? Is your extension listed in Help|About|Disabled Items?

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Ulf Lövgren

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Nov 30, 2004, 8:56:53 AM11/30/04

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> How does "our Outlook add-in is refused to be loaded by Outlook" manifest
> itself?

Our customly created toolbar is not shown/created during Oulook startup. We
create the toolbar via OOM when we receive
the IExchExtUserEvents::OnObjectChange event for the EECONTEXT_VIEWER
context.

> Do you install your ECE using registry or an ECF file?

In case of the user have access to HKLM we do both. Otherwise we only
install the ECE via an ECF file.

> Did you try deleting the extend.dat file?

Our installation software deletes the extend.dat file when our application
is being installed.

> Is your extension listed in Help|About|Disabled Items?

Unfortunately no. This was the first place I looked.

Thank you, Ulf Lövgren

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Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)

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Nov 30, 2004, 12:14:12 PM11/30/04

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But does everything else work besides the toolbar?

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