Outlook 2003 - Disable Reading Pane with GPO?

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Does anyone know if disabling the Outlook 2003 Reading Pane with a GPO is possible?

I have the OUTLK11.ADM file and I see an option for User Configuration~Administrative Templates~Microsoft Office Outlook 2003~Tools|Options~Other~Preview Pane but setting it to disabled has no effect (that I can see). I have a Windows 2000 AD domain and Outlook 2003.

Any help is appreciated.

 

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Have you confirmed on the client machine that the setting is being applied
(with the gpresult utility)?

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Brian Desmond
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Http://www.briandesmond.com


"mcron" <mcron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2DC65279-6F46-49A4-95AA-3B62D7BD6B2F@microsoft.com...
> Does anyone know if disabling the Outlook 2003 Reading Pane with a GPO is
possible?
>
> I have the OUTLK11.ADM file and I see an option for User
Configuration~Administrative Templates~Microsoft Office Outlook
2003~Tools|Options~Other~Preview Pane but setting it to disabled has no
effect (that I can see). I have a Windows 2000 AD domain and Outlook 2003.
>
> Any help is appreciated.

 

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Brian, thanks for your reply. I have confirmed that the policy is applied to the client PC (W2K Pro) with the gpresult utility. I can select a different setting from the administrative template and it works. Some of our PCs have Outlook 2000 and the rest have Outlook 2003 so I would like to disable the Preview Pane for the OL2K clients as well. I understand that I would use the OUTLK9.ADM file for the OL2K clients.

The motivation here is security. I have heard that the Reading Pane does not allow script execution and such (like the OL2K Preview Pane). Do you have any insight into this?

Regards,

"Brian Desmond [MVP]" wrote:

> Have you confirmed on the client machine that the setting is being applied
> (with the gpresult utility)?
>
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> --
> Brian Desmond
> Windows Server MVP
> desmondb@payton.cps.k12.il.us
>
> Http://www.briandesmond.com
>
>
> "mcron" <mcron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2DC65279-6F46-49A4-95AA-3B62D7BD6B2F@microsoft.com...
> > Does anyone know if disabling the Outlook 2003 Reading Pane with a GPO is
> possible?
> >
> > I have the OUTLK11.ADM file and I see an option for User
> Configuration~Administrative Templates~Microsoft Office Outlook
> 2003~Tools|Options~Other~Preview Pane but setting it to disabled has no
> effect (that I can see). I have a Windows 2000 AD domain and Outlook 2003.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
>
>
>