Attachments

[Guest]

Hello, we find it extremely inefficient in our environment to have to save
attachments to disk, then open them from the disk, rather than having them
open directly from the email. Does anyone know if there is a way to allow the
attachments to be opened directly from the email? We have already put in
place the registry change to at least allow certain attachments to show in
emails. We are running Windows 2000 SP4 Pro clients, using Outlook 2003 SP2
with Exchange 5.5. Thanks.

Regards,

Randy

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

what file types are you forced to save? if you put safe file types in the
registry, they will need saved.

 

[Guest]

Hi Diane, we are forced to save .PDF, .LNK, .DOC, .XLS and .MDB, among others
- all of which our clients receive regularly as attachment types. The
registry entry we created to at least allow those attachments to appear in
messages is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security

and added the key Level1Remove, with the above file types listed. My concern
is that Microsoft's stand on this is that this is by design, that it is a
'fact of life' that these types of attachments cannot be opened directly, but
must be saved to disk first, then opened from there. Again, this is very
inefficient for our business clients. Thank you for your reply.

what file types are you forced to save? if you put safe file types in the
registry, they will need saved.



--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/

Hello, we find it extremely inefficient in our environment to have to save
attachments to disk, then open them from the disk, rather than having them
open directly from the email. Does anyone know if there is a way to allow
the
attachments to be opened directly from the email? We have already put in
place the registry change to at least allow certain attachments to show in
emails. We are running Windows 2000 SP4 Pro clients, using Outlook 2003
SP2
with Exchange 5.5. Thanks.

Regards,

Randy

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

is PDF, doc and xls in the level1remove remove? that will force them to be
saved - remove them from the key as they are not blocked by default.

MDB is a blocked type and must be saved before opening - there is no way
around it. BTW - due to the high compressibility of mdb, it's recommended
they be zipped - it will reduce the file size as much as 75%.

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/blockzips.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=837388

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/

Hi Diane, we are forced to save .PDF, .LNK, .DOC, .XLS and .MDB, among
others
- all of which our clients receive regularly as attachment types. The
registry entry we created to at least allow those attachments to appear in
messages is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security

and added the key Level1Remove, with the above file types listed. My
concern
is that Microsoft's stand on this is that this is by design, that it is a
'fact of life' that these types of attachments cannot be opened directly,
but
must be saved to disk first, then opened from there. Again, this is very
inefficient for our business clients. Thank you for your reply.

what file types are you forced to save? if you put safe file types in the
registry, they will need saved.



--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/

Hello, we find it extremely inefficient in our environment to have to
save
attachments to disk, then open them from the disk, rather than having
them
open directly from the email. Does anyone know if there is a way to
allow
the
attachments to be opened directly from the email? We have already put
in
place the registry change to at least allow certain attachments to show
in
emails. We are running Windows 2000 SP4 Pro clients, using Outlook 2003
SP2
with Exchange 5.5. Thanks.

Regards,

Randy

 

[Christian Goeller]

Randy, you wrote on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 06:26:04 -0800:

Hi Diane, we are forced to save .PDF, .LNK, .DOC, .XLS and .MDB, among others
- all of which our clients receive regularly as attachment types. The
registry entry we created to at least allow those attachments to appear in
messages is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security

and added the key Level1Remove, with the above file types listed. My concern
is that Microsoft's stand on this is that this is by design, that it is a
'fact of life' that these types of attachments cannot be opened directly, but
must be saved to disk first, then opened from there. Again, this is very
inefficient for our business clients. Thank you for your reply.

..pdf, .doc, .xls needn't be in Level1Remove. They are not considered as
unsafe by Microsoft. You have always access on those files (attachments)
thus the entries in this value are absurd; when you remove this
extensions you will be able to open those attachments directly.

All other attachments with extensions that considered as unsafe [1] you
have to safe on your hard drive before opening. There is NO way in
Outlook 2002/2003 to open such as attachments directly (in Outlook 2000
it was possible by adding a registry-key (RemoveWarningFileTypes)).

[1] http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402971033.aspx

 

[Guest]

Thank you both for your helpful replies. Do I also understand it correctly
(from reading the MS Article in the link provided by Christian) that shortcut
type attachments will always have to have only the Save to Disk dialog box,
and that you can't change that so the user also has the choice of opening it
or saving it? We tend to use shortcuts as attachments a lot. Thanks again for
your replies, very much appreciated.

Regards,

Randy

Randy, you wrote on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 06:26:04 -0800:

Hi Diane, we are forced to save .PDF, .LNK, .DOC, .XLS and .MDB, among others
- all of which our clients receive regularly as attachment types. The
registry entry we created to at least allow those attachments to appear in
messages is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security

and added the key Level1Remove, with the above file types listed. My concern
is that Microsoft's stand on this is that this is by design, that it is a
'fact of life' that these types of attachments cannot be opened directly, but
must be saved to disk first, then opened from there. Again, this is very
inefficient for our business clients. Thank you for your reply.

..pdf, .doc, .xls needn't be in Level1Remove. They are not considered as
unsafe by Microsoft. You have always access on those files (attachments)
thus the entries in this value are absurd; when you remove this
extensions you will be able to open those attachments directly.

All other attachments with extensions that considered as unsafe [1] you
have to safe on your hard drive before opening. There is NO way in
Outlook 2002/2003 to open such as attachments directly (in Outlook 2000
it was possible by adding a registry-key (RemoveWarningFileTypes)).

[1] http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402971033.aspx

 

[Christian Goeller]

Randy, you wrote on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:24:48 -0800:

Do I also understand it correctly (from reading the MS Article in the
link provided by Christian) that shortcut type attachments will
always have to have only the Save to Disk dialog box, and that you
can't change that so the user also has the choice of opening it or
saving it?

That's correct!