Use of digital signatures in Office 2003

[Nathan]

Is there a way to setup Office 2003 to automatically sign documents when
saved. I would like to use Active Directory to store a certificate for each
user in our domain and have Office 2003 automatically sign documents when
saved by a logged-in user.

Conversely I would like to have Office trust those certificates, allowing us
to use High security level without users being prompted whether they trust
each document before opening it. Preferably this would be implementable via
group policy or the Custom Install Wizard.

Any ideas?

 

[Dian D. Chapman, MVP]

I believe that would depend on the digital signature software you are
using...which you didn't mention.

Office only comes with a digital signature for code, which I assume is
not what you mean. If that is what you mean, as far as I know this can
only be done manually per project.

Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant
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[Nathan]

Thanks for the response. I was thinking of using CAPICOM to generate and
store certificates for each user in Active Directory since we are still on
Windows 2000. Then I would, hopefully, have Word, Excel, Access etc
automatically sign documents when they are saved.