How to Disable Blocking of Web Beacons

In Microsoft® Server Exchange 2003, Outlook Web Access implemented a Web beacon blocking feature that makes it more difficult for people who send junk e-mail messages to use beacons to retrieve e-mail addresses. In Outlook Web Access, an incoming message with any content that can be used as a beacon, regardless of whether the message actually contains a beacon, prompts Outlook Web Access to display the following warning message:

To help protect your privacy, links to images, sounds, or other external content in this message have been blocked. Click here to unblock content.

If your organization does not want to use this feature, you can have your users perform the following procedure to disable the blocking option for Outlook Web Access.

For an overview of how Web beacons apply to Outlook Web Access deployments, see "Blocking Web Beacons" in Managing Outlook Web Access.

1. Use a Web browser to gain access to Outlook Web Access.

2. Click Options.

3. Under Privacy and Junk E-mail Prevention, clear the Block external content in HTML e-mail messages check box.

For information about managing and configuring Outlook Web Access, see the following topics:

• Configuring Outlook Web Access

• Managing Outlook Web Access