Well, first off you could consider setting this regkey to disable most of
the autoarchive functionality:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Preferenc
es]
"DoAging"=dword:00000000
This will remove:
A) Tools / Mailbox Cleanup / AutoArchive
B) Tools / Options / Other / AutoArchive
C) The AutoArchive tab in each folder's properties
This will *not* remove
A) File / Archive... from the menu.
Note that this regkey will only work for Outlook 2003. I cannot comment on
whether support for this regkey will be backported to SP releases of
previous versions of Outlook.
Now, if you also want to remove File / Archive... from the menu, this VB
code should help you get started:
Application.CommandBars("File").Controls("Archive...").Delete
Creating a new menu item to limit archiving to 5 emails at a time is
possible but it will require developing your own algorithm to look through
each folder and each message, and perform a move operation on the items of
your choosing based on criteria of your choosing. It's possible, but not
trivial.
Hope this helps!
--
Charles Beauregard-Tellier
Software Test Engineer
Microsoft Office
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