Employee leaving and trying to take their contacts - must stop

[JordanCN]

We use Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003. I have a user that gave their notice and I believe that they intend to take all their business contact information with them.

The upper management wants them to finish out the next couple of weeks so I really can't just shut down their email.

We have a email filtering system outside of Exchange that filters the email before it get to the Exchange server and after it leaves so I can easily intercept any email he attempts to send to his home and redirect it back to me, but that only covers one way he can take the information with him.

Is there a way I can prevent Outlook 2003 on his computer from performing any exports to CSV or PST of any contact information?

 

[58sniper]

There are GPO settings that can prevent the creation of .pst files. My recommendation is always that orgs shouldn't allow .pst files anyways.

A user can create an email and attach all of their contacts to it and send it to a personal account. The same user could save all of the contacts to the local drive, log into their hotmail account, and send them to themselves - completely bypassing your Exchange server.

Pat Richard MVP
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[Jontmke]

I think you are in a no win situation. Even if you are able to stop Exchange or Outlook what would stop the user from just writing this information down? If they haven't made copies already.

Jon

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)