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Outlook Options Centralized ?

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by john.m1

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Hi, our LAN is 35 workstations running Win2k pro/office XP

Server is Win2k Advanced server.
With Outlook being installed and run from each desktop PC can i have any central control over things like; Receipt request and tracking options? how about Group send/receive or Offline send/receive. Or do I just tell them that they can't use these options?

If you reply that it can be done centrally, Please also include the 'How', i will happily up the points for an "idiots guide" answer.

Thanks John.M1

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by curlergirl

It may not include all of the options you want to control, but there is an Administrative security template for each of the Office applications that can be loaded into the group policy snap-in and then applied to your organizational group(s). The templates are part of the Office Resource Kit - the files have an "OPA" extension with names like "OUTLK10.OPA" and will be in the Tools folder after you install the kit. To use them, you import them into the Administrative Templates folder in your group policy - if you want to apply the same policies to the entire domain, then add them to the Admin Templates folder in your Default Domain Policy. Then, you can enable/disable and set options for all sorts of settings within Outlook (or other Office apps) from there for your entire domain.

Hope this helps!

by john.m1

Thanks synergy/dlo, this gives me a start point. i will wait for some more answers before closing but you already earned some points, thanks. John.M1

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