Yes, I should be more careful and say that it is company specific, not user specific within a company.

I can see how a company might want to restrict access since one could write a malicious shell command (i.e. delete the c: drive) and they probably want to protect against this.

What can be done to at least understand the problem and perhaps direct the user for a way to disable it. I suppose this may be more of an IT question than a direct VBA question. This could be quite a sticking point.