Security News > 2021 > September > Office 365 to let admins block Active Content on Trusted Docs
Microsoft plans to allow Office 365 admins ensure that end-users can't ignore organization-wide policies set up to block active content on Trusted Documents.
Redmond says trusted docs are files with active content functions that don't require user interaction) that open without warnings after the content has been enabled.
"We are changing the behavior of Office applications to enforce policies that block Active Content on Trusted Documents," Microsoft said on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap.
"Previously, Active Content was allowed to run in Trusted Documents even when an IT administrator had set a policy to block it."
As part of an ongoing effort towards Office security hardening, the IT administrators' choice to block Active Content even for trusted files will now always take precedence over the user's choice to trust a document.
This would translate in all documents with embedded active content being opened in Protected View, despite a user's willingness to ignore security warnings reminding them that all active content has been disabled.