Plex reports issuing Security Alerts

Products

• CA Plex

Issue/Introduction

We are experiencing an issue in existing Plex generated reports after changing Office (Word) versions. End users are getting security alerts which they want no to be displayed:

Environment

CA Plex 7.21

Resolution

When upgrading to Microsoft Office for Enterprises, this error happens.

You can disable the error by creating an entry in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\Security

Additional Information

Additional information can be found here - How do you disable the hyperlink warning in excel (Office 365)

Using Procmon.exe, trace the point in the registry where MS Word is looking for a specific value at the time of the warning message: