Re: Blocking Outlook 2003 Menu Features

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Michael Kimmel wrote:
Hi Michael,

Is there something I'm doing wrong, or do I need to do something else
to remove that File menu item?

You can disable the use of .pst's which would result in disabling the use of autoarchiving.
See the following adm template which disables this feature in Outlook 2000 and 2002. So I would guess it should work in 2003 if you change the registrypath to Office 11.0
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;896515

CLASS MACHINE
 CATEGORY "Outlook"
  POLICY "Disable .pst files"
   KEYNAME "Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook"
   EXPLAIN "!!DisablePst_Hlp"
   PART "Disable .pst file creation in Outlook 2000" CHECKBOX
    KEYNAME "Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook"
    VALUENAME "DisablePst"
    DEFCHECKED
    VALUEON NUMERIC 1
   END PART ;Disable .pst file creation in Outlook 2000
   PART "Disable .pst file creation in Outlook 2002" CHECKBOX
    KEYNAME "Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook"
    VALUENAME "DisablePst"
   END PART ;Disable .pst file creation in Outlook 2002
  END POLICY ;Disable .pst files
 END CATEGORY ;Outlook


HTH
Norbert 

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