I want all my users to not use Cached Mode

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Gurus,

I just re-installed Office 2003 on my Windows Server 2003 SP1. But it is
using Cached mode which is a no-no on Terminal Server. How can I make
Outlook not use Cache Mode for all new users of this system?
 
Outlook was installed after. I used a transform file that may be settings
Outlook to Cached mode. I need to stop this behavior.

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Spin

Jeff Pitsch said:
Was outlook installed before or after terminal services was installed? If
before, uninstall office then reinstall it.

Jeff Pitsch
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You could make a Group Policy for that. With Office/Outlook there's a
policy template file. Somehwere in there (the OUTLK11.ADM) there's an
option to force or disallow Cached-mode, I believe...
 
Heh, oops. You could use the custom maintenance wizard to modify the
behaviour as well.

Jeff Pitsch


Spin said:
Outlook was installed after. I used a transform file that may be settings
Outlook to Cached mode. I need to stop this behavior.
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I have downloaded and extracted source file in the link onto my system. It
generated a lot of .adm and .opa file files into a folder on the server. I
copied the .adm files into the \Windows\Inf directory. I then opened
gpedit.msc hoping to see the new policies I could do with these but I do
not. What am I doing wrong?
 
First of all, I think it's better to make a GPO in the AD for the
terminal servers. I recommend making a seperate OU for them, if you
haven't done so already.

Make sure loopback policy processing is set in the GPO, so all you get
on the terminal server is the policies you set on the OU (set Policy
Inheritance of on the OU).

Create the new policy. Right-click on 'administrative templates' under
either the computer or user-container and select 'Add/remove
templates'. Now\ you can import the templates into the policy, and
after adding them you will see the new categories. You have to do this
for both computer and user-container.
 
Thanks. Now why do I have to do this for both the computer and
user-container. Since it's only a loopback policy only my settings in the
User portion of the policy apply correct?
 
No, that's not correct.
Computer settings will apply + User settings from this policy (and
not from the policy which is linked to the OU which contains the user
accounts, as would happen without the loopback processing).

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