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MS Outlook 2000 Preview Pane Disabling

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by tzmueller

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I need to know if I can permamently disable the Outlook 2000 preview pane for out users. I would like to do it via a reg entry so I can put it into a script.

Why? because the preview pane screws up our tracking of email messages for legal reasons. Or? is there a product that I can buy as an addon to exchange server that provides bullet proof message tracking. We need to know if someone read mail and did something with it or just deleted it without reading it and hopefully put it into somekind of database.

thanks.

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by awilliams3

This is by no means a perfect solution. But if you refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base an article mentions the use of the /Nopreview command line switch. This switch starts Outlook 2000 without the preview pane and remove the menu option for it. Perhaps yours scripts could modify and or replace existing shortcuts with the command line.

OL2000: Additional Command-Line Switches
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q197/1/80.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=+remove%20+preview%20+pane&rnk=3&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=OUT2K

by fred_e944

I don't know the Registry hack offhand, but to change things in Registry for Outlook 2000 use the System Policy Editor with the Outlk9.adm template from the Office 2000 Resource Kit (Outlk9.adm can also be obtained separately from Microsoft Downloads).

by tzmueller

This is a good idea but I need it to stick somehow and I think the reg entry is the only way if there is one.

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