*Fixed* Permission problem with W7 or Outlook03

[Charlie98]

I'll admit, this is my Kryptonite... Administrator permissions and stuff like that...

All of a sudden, my computer throws up a "This operation is cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator" every time I try to click on a link in an email. The header says Microsoft Office Outlook, so I was guessing it's a setting in Outlook, but I can't find any setting for it anywhere. In fact, it does it when I try to pull up 'Help' in Outlook...

Oddly enough, I'm using the Administrator account and it's doing this.

Can anyone help steer me in the right direction?

 

[Nothinman]

That's not a permission issue, it's a policy issue. Either a setting in Outlook or one set via the local group or security policy.

 

[Charlie98]

That's not a permission issue, it's a policy issue. Either a setting in Outlook or one set via the local group or security policy.

I would appreciate if you could elaborate on that... as I say, that kind of stuff is French to me.

 

[Nothinman]

The title says fixed, but I don't see what you did anywhere in the thread.

Group Policy is a way of configuring Windows and many apps and enforcing those settings, generally used in corporate domains to stop users from violating company policies. I have no idea how one would have gotten applied to your PC without being on a domain, so it's more likely a security setting in Outlook.

 

[Ferzerp]

The guy probably disabled UAC instead of fixing the root cause.

 

[Nothinman]

The guy probably disabled UAC instead of fixing the root cause.

UAC should have no affect on whether or not Outlook lets you click on links directly...

 

[rasczak]

I would appreciate if you could elaborate on that... as I say, that kind of stuff is French to me.

There are outlook settings in the local/domain group policy for disabling links. Can you tell us what changes you made that prompted this?

 

[Ferzerp]

UAC should have no affect on whether or not Outlook lets you click on links directly...

It would if something else is going on requiring privilege escalation to do so. Malware, bad config, etc. The reasons it could happen are myriad, that error is often generated by missing escalated privileges, and most people think disabling UAC is a "fix" when it rarely is (and most certainly isn't for MS written software).

 

[Nothinman]

It would if something else is going on requiring privilege escalation to do so. Malware, bad config, etc. The reasons it could happen are myriad, that error is often generated by missing escalated privileges, and most people think disabling UAC is a "fix" when it rarely is (and most certainly isn't for MS written software).

I've never seen UAC trigger a policy violation message, just permission denied. What the OP posted is pretty standard for trying to use a feature disabled by GPO.

 

[Ferzerp]

I've never seen UAC trigger a policy violation message, just permission denied. What the OP posted is pretty standard for trying to use a feature disabled by GPO.

It happens quite a bit for installers that aren't detected as such for example, and so never trigger the escalation prompt.

 

[Charlie98]

I don't know what I did to trigger the violations, at this point I'm assuming a windows update or something. I don't mess with those settings because I don't understand them, so SOMETHING triggered it.

FYI, I googled the error code and came up with some sort of MS 'fixit' link that did, indeed, fix it.

I really did dig around through the Outlook settings, but never really saw anything.