Installing Office 2000 Service Packs

Greetings,

I believe that the answer to your question can be found within the following Microsoft article, "OL2000: Administrator Information About the Outlook E-mail Security Update" (REMOVE SPACES from the cut and pasted URL):

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q263/2/97.asp#WR

Part of the article states the following:

Information About the Windows Registry Key
When a user starts Outlook, Outlook checks to see if a registry key is set and configured to use custom security settings. If it is, Outlook retrieves the user's settings from the Outlook Security Settings public folder.

The registry key holds a DWORD value and is in the following location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Security\CheckAdminSettings
The following list describes the Outlook behavior for the registry key and its value:
No key: Outlook operates in lock-down mode.

Value of 0 (zero): Outlook operates in lock-down mode.

Value of 1 (one): Outlook looks for custom administrative settings.

IMPORTANT: The behavior that is described may seem different from the behavior that is described in section 2.4 of the Readme.txt file. The Readme.txt file implies that if you have no key or if the key has a value of zero, Outlook checks for settings on the server. This is not correct; the default Outlook "lock-down" settings are used, not the settings that are stored in the Default Security Settings folder in the public folder.

Section 2.4 of the Readme.txt file provides details about how to deploy the registry to the user's computers. The method that you use to deploy the registry varies depending on configuration and whether or not policies are in effect.
How to Manually Create the Registry Key
For information about how to create the registry key, see section 2.4.3 of the Readme.txt file.

There are more links to more Microsoft articles as well.

Good luck,

Maxwell