secman.dll locked by Outlook process

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secman.dll locked by Outlook process
 
Martin Praxmarer




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Hi Guys,

i have a problem with Security Manager. We use it in our ERP Application to create/send Mails. when disabling the security warnings - and after sending enabling it again with also disposing the security manager the secman.dll keeps loaded by the outlook process - which is a huge problems for us in case of applicatino updates. users are closing our application - but cannot update because of secman.dll is still opened by outlook.

is there any solution for this?
Posted 18 Feb, 2020 02:41:57 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hello Martin,

Make sure you call Disconnect() before you dispose the security manager.


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Posted 18 Feb, 2020 02:51:54 Top
Martin Praxmarer




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Hi Andrei,

thx for the very fast response. i can remember we removed the Disconnect call because it had closed outlook - we is what we did not wanted. i will give it a try!

thx you!!
Posted 18 Feb, 2020 03:00:39 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Welcome!


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Posted 18 Feb, 2020 03:30:34 Top
Martin Praxmarer




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Hi Andrei,

Disconnect does not help! If the user had outlook opened before - calling Disconnect and Disposing the Manager does not release the secman.dll's...?
Posted 18 Feb, 2020 03:53:40 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hello Martin,

According to our guys, there's no 100% working way to unload a DLL from a process; FreeLibrary doesn't work sometimes. In this situation, your only ways is to ask the user to restart Outlook.


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Posted 18 Feb, 2020 04:57:26 Top
Martin Praxmarer




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Damn - thx, but this is not really a way for us...
Posted 18 Feb, 2020 04:59:16 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Martin,

You can stop the update, issue a notification that Windows 10 will show in the tray area, and wait for the user' reaction.


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Posted 18 Feb, 2020 05:52:40 Top
Martin Praxmarer




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Sure - but we need to change our update process now. before securitymanager we used redemption where we did not had this problem (but others - which is why we switched to SM)
Posted 18 Feb, 2020 05:54:12 Top