Disable additional security checks on VBA library references that may refer to unsafe locations on the local machine

Supported OS tags: Windows10

This policy setting restricts VBA to checking project library references only against the registry and trusted zones. By default VBA performs additional checks against library paths to prevent loading references from potentially unsafe locations on the local machine as well. It is recommended that this setting remain 0 or unset to allow for the more secure default behavior. Only enable this setting if the default behavior is causing compatibility issues with critical solutions, and then, only to provide time to migrate the solutions to address the less secure behavior, at which point the setting should be turned off again.

This policy has no additional user input fields.

• User
  ActiveX Control Initialization

  Windows7
• User
  Allow Basic Authentication prompts from network proxies

  Windows7
• User
  Allow file extensions for OLE embedding

  Windows7
• User
  Allow root or intermediate certificates as VBA trusted publishers

  Windows 10
• User
  Allow specified hosts to show Basic Authentication prompts to Office apps

  Windows7
• User
  Allow VBA to load typelib references by path from untrusted intranet locations

  Windows 10
• User
  Automation Security

  Windows7
• User
  Block additional file extensions for OLE embedding

  Windows7
• User
  Block all internet macros (ignore trusted locations or publishers)

  Windows 10
• User
  Block Insecure Protocols

  Windows7
• User
  Block loading of COM/VSTO add-ins registered in HKCU

  Windows 10
• User
  Block OLE Graph

  Windows7