Microsoft said today that it has restarted the implementation of VBA macro auto-blocking in downloaded Office documents after temporarily suspending it earlier this month

The Microsoft 365 message centre has been updated to reflect changes made in response to customer input, the company said.

“We’ve updated our end user and admin documentation to make clearer what alternatives you have for certain scenarios.” On the case of users who have files in SharePoint

or on a network share, what should you do? On the A potentially dangerous macro has been blocked support page, end users can learn more about

The Microsoft 365 message centre has been updated to reflect changes made in response to customer input, the company said.

Your organisation will not be affected by this change if you previously enabled or disabled the Block macros from running in Office files from the Internet policy,” Microsoft said.

Rolled Back In Response To A Lack Of Positive Feedback From Users A decision made earlier this year by Microsoft to make it more difficult to enable Office VBA macros in documents downloaded.

VBA macros hidden in malicious Office documents have long been a convenient way for threat actors to spread a variety of malware families through phishing assault

When the new functionality went live for customers last month, Microsoft suddenly and without explanation declared that this modification will be turned back.

Many users have stated that they were unable to re-enable macros after they had been automatically banned because they couldn’t locate the Unblock button.