Initialize unsafe ActiveX controls prompt in word 2003

[andymac3000]

Im running office 2003 in a Windows 2003 terminal services environment. We have an application that calls up some pre-designed templates.

Whenever they are run, we get the following microsoft forms prompt.

"This application is about to initialize ActiveX controls that might be unsafe. If you trust the source of this file, select OK and the controls will be initialized using your current workspace settings"

If you click ok, everything seems to fire up ok, but we would like to get rid of the prompt

I have been through

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;827742

, making the necessary registry changes for UFIcontrols.

I have also tried all the settings in group policy (machine and user) trying macro security levels and so on, and have been through the customer maintenance wizard for office 2003, which has allowed me to change the 'unsafe active x initialization' to 'do not prompt' but still i cannot get rid of the prompt

does anyone have anything else I can try ?

Thanks

Andy

 

[yannick]

Hey...don't know if it is too late for you, but had an issue with the same message in IE. Here is a solution:

You just need to change a value in your registry that will enable to "Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe" for your Local Machine Zone.

Go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows
\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\0

And modify the value of the key 1201 to 0
That should work !!!

Here is two interesting links:
For all the zone and security settings with SP2:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2brows.mspx

Explanation of secutiry as well as a good vb script to show the Local Zone not shown in IE:

http://www.jsware.net/jsware/iewacky.php3

Yannick