{"id":7783,"date":"2017-10-12T20:27:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T00:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2017-10-12T20:27:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T00:27:14","slug":"how-to-unblock-unsafe-attachments-in-microsoft-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7783","title":{"rendered":"How to Unblock Unsafe Attachments in Microsoft Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I got this error when a developer was emailing me a js file:<br \/>\n\"<em>Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments\u2026<\/em>\"<\/p>\n<p>Solution (from: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/outlook-unblock-unsafe-attachments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sitepoint<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Close Outlook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Run regedit.exe<\/strong><br \/>\nNavigate to:<\/p>\n<pre>HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOfficeXX.XOutlookSecurity\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Where XX.X indicates your version of Outlook:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>14.0<\/strong>\u00a0for Microsoft Office 2010<\/li>\n<li><strong>12.0<\/strong>\u00a0for Microsoft Office 2007<\/li>\n<li><strong>11.0<\/strong>\u00a0for Microsoft Office 2003<\/li>\n<li><strong>10.0<\/strong>\u00a0for Microsoft Office 2002<\/li>\n<li><strong>9.0<\/strong>\u00a0for Microsoft Office 2000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3. Create a new value<\/strong><br \/>\nCreate a new string value key in that location named:<\/p>\n<pre>Level1Remove<\/pre>\n<p><strong>4. Choose your \u2018safe\u2019 file types<\/strong><br \/>\nEdit the key and enter a list of attachment extensions you want to unblock. Each should start with a period and be separated with a semi-colon. For example\u2026<\/p>\n<p>To unblock JavaScript files only, enter:<\/p>\n<pre>.js\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>To unblock JavaScript, VBScript, and exe files, enter:<\/p>\n<pre>.js;.vbs;.exe\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Click OK to save the value then exit regedit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Restart Outlook<\/strong><br \/>\nThe attachment should be magically unblocked. Try rebooting if that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I got this error when a developer was emailing me a js file: \"Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments\u2026\" Solution (from: sitepoint): 1. Close Outlook 2. Run regedit.exe Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOfficeXX.XOutlookSecurity Where XX.X indicates your version &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7783\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7784,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions\/7784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}