Outlook Usability Enhancements

This section describes the following topics:

  • Supported environments

  • Outlook security profile configuration and Publish to GAL, on card insertion

  • Auto-Contact

  • Auto-Decrypt

The purpose of the ActivID ActivClient (referred to as ActivClient) Microsoft Outlook Usability Enhancements is to ease the configuration and usage of Microsoft Outlook for email signature, encryption and decryption using certificates stored on a smart card.

They also enable administrators to enforce corporate policies regarding email security.

The capabilities of the ActivClient Outlook Usability Enhancements are:

  • Outlook security profile configuration on card insertion:

  • Configure Outlook security profile on card insertion

  • Publish to GAL on card insertion

  • Incoming e-mail management:

  • Automatically add sender’s certificates to Outlook Contacts (Auto-Contact)

  • Automatically decrypt encrypted e-mails (Auto-Decrypt)

Note:

To avoid Outlook crashing with AIP add-in on encrypted E-mail follow the below steps:

  • Enable the ActivClient PIN Caching GPO "Exclude executables from ActivClient PIN cache" and add "outlook.exe" to the list.

  • Restart the machine to update the GPO changes.

  • See Exclude Executables from ActivClient PIN cache for more information.

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