Disable the Macro Security Dialog Box

[Doug Wooten]

Hello All

I was wondering if someone could help with the following
problem... Within MS Office there is an option to view
and change macro security for which we want to disable
user access.
Disabling the menu item is done with a GPO, no problems.
However, there is a backdoor by going into (in word for
example) Tools->Options->Security and then pressing the
macro security button.
We want to disable the macro security dialog box but it
isnt in a predefined GPO.
I was hoping to find the control for this box and set it
as a custom item for office not to allow access too if it
is possible.
Any ideas or pointers would be most appreciated!
Doug.

 

[dennis]

I don't know how to disable the whole box, but if you set each item in the
box via GPO, then the options will be greyed out on the user's workstation
and they can't change them (except by registery hack). They will be able to
see how the settings are set, but they cannot change them.

Dennis

 

[Doug Wooten]

Unfortunately, this doesnt seem to work either. If we set
the macro security level to high, they can still get into
the box and change it via the tools->options method.

It resets once they exit and go back into word but it
appears while they keep word open they keep the setting
they set.

Seems strange there isnt a way to restrict users from
doing this.