Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Signing Your Macros to Avoid Security Warnings

Macro security in Outlook 2007 gives you control over when macros can run, which helps prevent malicious code from affecting an Outlook 2007 user’s system. When macro security is set to Warnings For Signed Macros; All Unsigned Macros Are Disabled in Outlook 2007, only digitally signed macros from trusted sources can run. A setting of Warnings For All Macros causes Outlook 2007 to prompt you whether to enable and allow macros to run. A setting of No Security Check For Macros allows all macros to run, which poses significant risks from malicious code.

If you create your own macros, you probably would like to digitally sign your macros so that they will run on other people’s computers without triggering ...