
To help protect your computer, files from these potentially unsafe locations are opened in Protected View. Select Not Configured, and then select OK.įiles from the Internet and from other potentially unsafe locations may contain viruses, worms, and other kinds of malware, and these can harm your computer.

Start the Group Policy Management Console.Įxpand the Microsoft Outlook 2013 or Microsoft Outlook 2010 node, and then select Security, per the following screenshot:ĭouble-click the Use Protected View for attachments received from internal senders policy. Therefore, your system administrator must disable the Use Protected View for attachments from internal senders policy in the Group Policy Management Console, as follows: In this configuration, the MarkInternalAsUnsafe value is located under the Policies hive in the registry. Set MarkInternalAsUnsafe to 1 under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\x.0\Outlook\Security. Important Note: When you manually open a file in Protected View and then close the file, it won’t automatically reopen in Protected View.The x.0 placeholder represents the version of Outlook that you're using (Outlook 2013 = 15.0, Outlook 2010 = 14.0).ĭouble-click the MarkInternalAsUnsafe DWORD value.Ĭhange the value from 1 to 0, and select OK. Select the Enable Editing button if you want to exit Protected View.If you see a red warning bar, that means Microsoft has detected a threat within the file. The file should open with a yellow warning bar at the top of the screen. Select Open in Protected View from the drop-down menu.(Be careful not to select the Open button itself.) Important Note: Don’t double-click the file! Double-clicking will open the file as a trusted document (i.e., in the normal mode). Locate and select the file in the Open dialog box.Alternatively, if you have another document open already, select the File tab in the ribbon followed by the Open tab in the Backstage view.
