Does anyone know what the best way is to disable the
Outlook preview pane at an Enterprise level?

Is there a way to add the "/nopreview" switch to the
existing properties of the Outlook desktop icon? If not is
there a way to remove and replace the icon with a desktop
shortcut that I can deploy via GPO in AD?

Thanks,
Jake

You can disable it by Group Policy. The Office Resource Kit holds an
adm-template which you can import into the GP editor.
User Configuration-> Administrative Templates-> Microsoft Outlook
<version>-> Tools | Options-> Other-> Preview Pane-> set it to Disabled

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"Jake" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know what the best way is to disable the
> Outlook preview pane at an Enterprise level?
>
> Is there a way to add the "/nopreview" switch to the
> existing properties of the Outlook desktop icon? If not is
> there a way to remove and replace the icon with a desktop
> shortcut that I can deploy via GPO in AD?
>
> Thanks,
> Jake

This didn't work.

I believe that setting it to disabled only disables the 4 Preview Pane
settings defined in the ADM template with PART statements, and not the
Preview Pane itself.

Anybody have different results?


"Roady [MVP]" <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote in
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> You can disable it by Group Policy. The Office Resource Kit holds an
> adm-template which you can import into the GP editor.
> User Configuration-> Administrative Templates-> Microsoft Outlook
> <version>-> Tools | Options-> Other-> Preview Pane-> set it to Disabled
>
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> Roady [MVP]
> www.sparnaaij.net
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> Also Outlook FAQ, How To's, Downloads and more...
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> "Jake" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:750c01c3e746$463018b0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Does anyone know what the best way is to disable the
> > Outlook preview pane at an Enterprise level?
> >
> > Is there a way to add the "/nopreview" switch to the
> > existing properties of the Outlook desktop icon? If not is
> > there a way to remove and replace the icon with a desktop
> > shortcut that I can deploy via GPO in AD?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jake
>
>