Office 2021 Trusted Locations opening in Protected View

Question

Hi,

I have setup a GPO with a Trusted Location on the network where our macro creators can save their macro-enabled content. When I look in the Office Applications Trust Center I can see the Trusted Location appearing in the "Policy Locations" section and the checkbox for "Allow Trusted locations on my network" is checked.

However when opening a file from this location it is still opened in Protected View.

I have downloaded and used the latest ADMX files to create the GPO and tried both a mapped drive and UNC format but I still cant get the files to open normally.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Some of directory always 'll be unprotected like download or temporary internet folders, till

however, this has not been enough for some time, if you use outside intranet sources then you should assignee it to internet in control panel trusted location

And you should check file properties to use unblock security check

Answer 2

Perfect, the trusted sites fixed this for me thanks.