RE: Change Macro Security Settings to Low during Custom Setup

There are many ways to do this.

1) if your using the corp version of office 2003, you can create an
administrative install point, and then use the office resource kit to create
an MST file which modifies the policy templates to set the macro security
level to low. MS do have some white papers on this.. see

Office 2003 Editions Resource Kit (download)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/e/d/0eda9ae6-f5c9-44be-98c7-ccc3016a296a/ork.exe
more info here
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011513711033.aspx

Office 2003 Policy Template Files and Deployment Planning Tools (download)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/f/95f7e000-d7ab-4b86-8a5d-804b124c7a69/Office-2003-SP1-ADMs-OPAs-and-Explain-Text.exe

basically look at this page
http://www.microsoft.com/office/orkarchive/2003ddl.htm

2) A) install office 2003 as normal,
B) log on to the machine as a user account.
C) modify the macro security setting in each account. (and you could also
setup the desktop and start menus how you want them).
D) reboot the computers (make life easier instead of getting an access
denied in the next step when dealing with the NTUSER file)
E) Log on as the local Administrator
F) go into Windows explorer
G) Go to options and show all files and folders
H) goto C:\Documents and Settings (there should be 4 folders [Administrator,
All users, Default, and the user you logged in as)
I) Open the folder for the user you logged in as to lower security settings
J) Click on the My Documents folder,
K) Go to Edit and do an Select Inverse
L) Copy the selected files and paste them in to the Default folder (in
C:\Documents and Settings)
M) Delete the folder of the account you just logged in as....
now when any user logs into that machine their profile will automatically
have the setting you created in the user account you logged in as to lower
the security levels...

Problems (it's a per machine file in some cases, if your using roaming
profiles... their server profile will be downloaded... and a few more)

Personally I'd use the Admin tool :)

Good luck and let us know how things go..
"Computer Rx Inc" wrote:

> In our conversion project, O2K3 installs the Macro Security in all of the
> modules (Word, Excel, Access) to HIGH as a new security feature. We have
> many 3rd party applications that use startup macros.
>
> What we need is a way that during the Custom Installation to change the
> security setting to Low without having to open application and set them by
> hand.
.

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