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Change Outlook options via script

Hi everyone,

I am trying to write a script that changes the programmatic access options in outlook 2013 & 2016.
If you don't know what I am talking about see screenshot attached.
I would like to change it to "Never warn me about suspicious activity (not recommended)"

I don't have administrator rights, so I cannot change it myself.
I was wondering if a script would be able to do this without admin rights.

I have tried the below solution (renamed a .txt file as .reg), but It did not work as it does not allow me to change the registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Security]
"ObjectModelGuard"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Security]
"PromptOOMSend"=dword:00000002
"AdminSecurityMode"=dword:00000003
"promptoomaddressinformationaccess"=dword:00000002
"promptoomaddressbookaccess"=dword:00000002

Please help!

Sean

What do you mean it doesn't allow you to change the registry? Are you not an admin on the computer?

Seems like this would be a good use for a group policy rather than a script.

Alexei Kuznetsov

In order to be able to modify the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subkeys, you need to have administrator's rights (import *.reg using the elevated command prompt).

spiga83

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I don't have admin rights since it's a company's computer and it is locked down... But I thought vbscript could find a back door to the registry and update the value of that option. Just a guess... I don't actually know if that's possible.

Alexei Kuznetsov

No back doors here, sorry.

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Sean

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