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benb
Hi,
Not sure if this is right or not, but I think I've found a bug in the group
policy template for Office 2003.
If you go to 'User Config' > 'Admin Templates' > 'Microsoft Office 2003' >
'Security Settings' then open the 'Disable Hyperlink Warning' policy and try
to set it to enable, without also checking the 'Check to override hyperlink
warning' it default back to 'Disabled' which is a little annoying if you
don't realise that's happened, and then spend ages trying to figure out why
a workstation isn't picking up the new settings. It seems a little pointless
to have to tick 2 options to perform a single function. In other policies,
the sub section of the properties dialogue is just for additional options.
Also even after enabling this policy it doesn't seem that Office 2003 even
picks up the value. I tested this, by forcing a GPupdate, logged off then on
again, opened an excel spreadsheet containing a hyperlink, and still got the
warning message. Looking at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829072 there are
2 locations this value can be set,
"HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common" which is where the GP
sets the value, but it can also be entered under
"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common" I checked that there wasn't a
conflicting value under here that might take precedence over the policy
setting, but there wasn't. I tried another GP update, and rebooted, then
tested with excel again, but still got the warning. Only after creating the
entry manually in "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common" and setting
"DisableHyperlinkWarning" to 1, could I get the warning message to disable.
It seems that Office, or at least excel, (haven't tested with word yet),
doesn't take notice of this settings if its defined in a policy.
Has anyone else found this problem, or is it just our setup?
Many thanks
Ben
Not sure if this is right or not, but I think I've found a bug in the group
policy template for Office 2003.
If you go to 'User Config' > 'Admin Templates' > 'Microsoft Office 2003' >
'Security Settings' then open the 'Disable Hyperlink Warning' policy and try
to set it to enable, without also checking the 'Check to override hyperlink
warning' it default back to 'Disabled' which is a little annoying if you
don't realise that's happened, and then spend ages trying to figure out why
a workstation isn't picking up the new settings. It seems a little pointless
to have to tick 2 options to perform a single function. In other policies,
the sub section of the properties dialogue is just for additional options.
Also even after enabling this policy it doesn't seem that Office 2003 even
picks up the value. I tested this, by forcing a GPupdate, logged off then on
again, opened an excel spreadsheet containing a hyperlink, and still got the
warning message. Looking at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829072 there are
2 locations this value can be set,
"HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common" which is where the GP
sets the value, but it can also be entered under
"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common" I checked that there wasn't a
conflicting value under here that might take precedence over the policy
setting, but there wasn't. I tried another GP update, and rebooted, then
tested with excel again, but still got the warning. Only after creating the
entry manually in "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common" and setting
"DisableHyperlinkWarning" to 1, could I get the warning message to disable.
It seems that Office, or at least excel, (haven't tested with word yet),
doesn't take notice of this settings if its defined in a policy.
Has anyone else found this problem, or is it just our setup?
Many thanks
Ben