suba

i need to disable autoarchive in outlook 2002. had a look at microsoft website but their solution disable both autoarchive AND personal folder. all i want is to disable the autoarchive.

snooping the web, i think it can be done via group policy with the outlook policy file but i dont know how

ozzy

You just have to turn it off. Either do this within the Outlook options or add the Office Administration templates so you can mange the settings via Group Policy manager.

suba

need to disable the autoarchive for all users, so will be too hard work to do it manually. so how do i use the office/outlook admin templates?

ozzy

Download and install the Office XP resource kit (I think that's the correct name for Office 2002) - http://www.microsoft.com/office/orkarchive/xpddl.htm

Install it on the admin workstation
You may need the Group Policy management tools too if you've not installed these already
Then you need to add the Group Policy management to the MMC
Then all the options for Office should appear under Computer or User policies (Administrative Templates IIRC)

The rest you can follow with your own nose. I'm not holding your hand through it all

darlodge

The only way to remove the archive function is by adding a key to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\11.0\ Outlook\]
"DisablePST"=dword:00000001

The autoarchive can be turned off in Group Policy using the Outlook.adm.

Darren

suba

i just want to disable autoarchive. using the DisablePST disable both autoarchive and Personal Folder.

darlodge

I worded my responce badly

The Group Policy adm file for Outlook is very detailed and complex, download the excel spreadseet with all the settings on, it will make you

In addition to removing AutoArchive (via adm) I also want to remove the File\Archive option. This can only be done via the above dword value on every PC

Darren

R1916v

Use a GPO to do it.

Easy peasy, use a logon script, create a GPO or worst comes to worse use whatever system you use to deploy software/patches to do it (ie SMS).