Disable editing of received messages - how?

[Guest]

Users are able to edit messages they have received in their inbox by opening
the message, then selecting edit, edit message. I would like to disable this
feature, and prevent users from editing received messages, for tracking/legal
purpouses. Is there a way to disable this?

Thanks

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You can disable any menu or toolbar command, such as Reply to All, by using a Group Policy Object. The article at http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/46342/46342.html explains how.

If you don't want to write your own code to recurse the Explorer.CommandBars
and Inspector.CommandBars collections to get the IDs that you need to be able to disable certain toolbar and menu commands, you can use either the CommandBars
Browser or Outlook Spy tools listed at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/vb.htm#tools

The ID for Edit Message is 5604.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

It's not an AD structure, these are stand alone copies of Outlook used for
POP access only.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The same registry value applies.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Registry value? Where?

All I really need to do is to be able to customize the menus. I know that
in Outlook 2002 there's a cutomization for menus, but I can't get it to edit
any of the default menus (I can in Outlook 2003 though...) THe button (and
the selections) are greyed out. If there's a way to turn them on, that's all
I really need.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you actually tried implementing the policy using the .adm file (which you can do on any machine where you have admin rights), you'd see that what it does is create a new registry value in HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\DisabledCmdBarItemsList. For each command you want to disable, you would have a REG_SZ value in that key named TCID# where # is some number (starting at TCID1) with a data value of the ID of the command you want to disable.

To customize the menus, choose View | Toolbars | Customize. That, of course, won't block any commands, just hide them.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info on the XP admin files...I'd have to get the res kit from
what I've read, so that'sprobably not going to happen.

As tothe other thing, just removing the optionfrom the menu is fine. The
problem is, in Outlook 2002, you CANNOT change the default menu items.

So, it looks like I'm going to have to throw money at Microsoft again.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Why not? The ORK is downloadable from http://office.microsoft.com

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

FYI It's downloadable from www.microsoft.com/downloads, not
ofice.microsoft.com

 

[Guest]

OK:

I found the policy editor in the tools, I even found the Office 10 adm file
for Outlook, and I see the key to diable the menu commands....now, the only
question left is:

What's the ID for the Edit message command?

Anyway, side note, I'm doing this for someone else, and they called
microsoft, explained the situation to their tech support, and tech support's
answer to their explanation was "You can't do that"

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

As I said several posts ago ...
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers