Outlook 2003 disable multiple email account 1

[mospa]

Is it possible in Outlook 2003 to stop users from adding other email accounts? e.g. hotmail, yahoo.

 

[nickpark]

Yes you can. You can use Ad Group Policy objects, GPOs, to push out the registry key changes.

Import the Outlook administrative template outlk11.adm (you may need to download this) and under the miscellaneous category there is Prevent users from adding e-mail account types which allows you to prevent http, pop3, etc accounts being added.

Below is the GPO adm contents...
POLICY "Prevent users from adding e-mail account types"
KEYNAME Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options
PART "Prevent users from adding HTTP e-mail accounts" CHECKBOX
VALUENAME DisableHTTP
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END PART
PART "Prevent users from adding Exchange e-mail accounts" CHECKBOX
VALUENAME DisableExchange
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END PART
PART "Prevent users from adding POP3 e-mail accounts" CHECKBOX
VALUENAME DisablePOP3
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END PART
PART "Prevent users from adding IMAP e-mail accounts" CHECKBOX
VALUENAME DisableIMAP
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END PART
PART "Prevent users from adding other types of e-mail accounts" CHECKBOX
VALUENAME DisableOtherTypes
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END PART
END POLICY
POLICY "Prevent users from making changes to Outlook profiles"
KEYNAME Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup
PART "Check to enforce setting on; uncheck to enforce setting off" CHECKBOX
VALUENAME ModifyAccounts
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END PART
PART " " TEXT
END PART
PART "When set, users will be unable to access profile configuration through" TEXT
END PART
PART "Tools | E-mail Accounts... or through the the Mail Control Panel Applet." TEXT
END PART
END POLICY

 

[mospa]

Brilliant, thanks for that.