http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers Mon, 20 May 2013 00:58:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/is-outlook-connector-a-security-threat-to-exchange/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/is-outlook-connector-a-security-threat-to-exchange/#comments Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:52:17 +0000 ChemEngr I’m a chemical engineer working for a small mid-west company (300 – 400 people).  I’m an IT guy at heart from my IT support days in college where I was doing PC repair, setting up small LAN’s and troubleshooting server issues.  I installed Outlook Connector on my Desktop at work so I see my hotmail account in Outlook ’07 (I think it’s an Exchange ’03 or ’07 environment).  When an IT guy saw this in my outlook program one day, flips out on me, calls the Leader for the IT group, and I get talked down to by him and was simply told that MAPI accounts are forbidden, 3rd party add-ons are forbidden (Outlook Connector 3rd party???), and that Outlook connector with hotmail presents a significant security risk to the company Exchange server and LAN.  I complied and asked the question why is the risk higher with outlook connector than when I simply open hotmail through my browser?  He simply said there was a big difference, but wasn’t able to give me a straight answer.  Can someone confirm that Outlook connector is a security risk and explain to me why?

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