Changing settings in MS Access after first open

eHealth has us in a policy that should prevent the following. If anyone gets this error please let me know so we can fix the underlying problem instead of repeated manual fixes.

A yellow bar at the top of the screen that says

Security Warning Some active content has been disabled. Click for more details.

old error

A potential security concern has been identified This location may be unsafe <a file path> Hyperlinks can be hearmful to your computer and data. To protect your computer, click only on those hyperlinks from trusted sources. Do you want to continue? Yes button / No button

Steps to prevent this from coming up

• click on file (top left corner), options
• If this error is preventing you from accessing the options menu, close the program. Open Access from the start menu, and instead of opening the database, open a new blank database. You should then be able to access file and options.
• click on trust center (bottom of left panel)
• click Trust center Settings button (bottom right)
• click Trusted locations
• make sure checkbox for Allow trusted locations on my network is checked (in the bottom of window)
• make sure the following lines exist:
  • "\\ad.wrha.mb.ca\wrha\REGION\Shared\ICU_DATA_COLLECTION\", and subfolders box is checked.
  • "C:\" and subfolders box is checked.
  • if using (e.g. White Board) , "\\ad.wrha.mb.ca\wrha\HSC\shared\MED\MED_CCMED\" , and subfolders box is checked S:\MED\MED_CCMED
  • add new location if needed:
• click on Add New Location
• copy/paste the location from above
• make sure you check off checkbox "subfolders of this location are also trusted"

Related articles

Related articles:

Pull down centralized data.vbs (← links) Microsoft Access Security Notice (← links)