Setting Macro Security=Low?

External Since: Dec 19, 2008 Posts: 5

MS Access app running on a Citrix server.

Pops 3 annoying (SandBox-mode-related?) security dialogs every
time somebody opens the app.

Read a couple of MS papers on it.

Sounds like the Good-Right-And-Holy-Path is to create some kind
of "Certificate".

Not gonna happen around here.

Every ref I read explicitly said not to set security to "Low" to
get around said dialogs.

Meanwhile, the guys in charge of the dev server just set Tools |
Macro | Security | Security Level = Low and, of course, all three
dialogs went away.

The rationale is that the server is behind a firewall and
security's not an issue.

Sounds plausible to me, but I'm generally overwhelmed by the
volume of stuff that I think I know something about but really
don't have a clue about.

Are they missing anything with the Security=Low approach?

External Since: Dec 15, 2008 Posts: 12

On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:45:54 -0400, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

> MS Access app running on a Citrix server.
>
> Pops 3 annoying (SandBox-mode-related?) security dialogs every time
> somebody opens the app.
>
> Read a couple of MS papers on it.
>
> Sounds like the Good-Right-And-Holy-Path is to create some kind of
> "Certificate".
>
> Not gonna happen around here.
>
> Every ref I read explicitly said not to set security to "Low" to get
> around said dialogs.
>
> Meanwhile, the guys in charge of the dev server just set Tools | Macro |
> Security | Security Level = Low and, of course, all three dialogs went
> away.
>
> The rationale is that the server is behind a firewall and security's not
> an issue.
>
> Sounds plausible to me, but I'm generally overwhelmed by the volume of
> stuff that I think I know something about but really don't have a clue
> about.
>
> Are they missing anything with the Security=Low approach?

All you are doing is setting it to the same security that every version
of Access prior to 2003 had. Did that ever give you (or anyone else) any
problems? It certainly never caused me any grief.

It is the first thing I tell users of 2003 to change when they ask about
those dialogs.