Prevent users from using stationary

[Guest]

Is there a way to administratively keep users from using stationary when
sending an email? Stationary only works with HTML emails so I thought there
might be a way to prevent HTML emails using a group policy security setting.
I am not sure if this post is in thr right area, but I thought I'd give it a
shot.

Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I researched this for my "Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003" book (see signature). There are several other steps you need to take:

1) Create a NewStationery value in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\MailSettings key and leave it blank to prevent users from choosing any default stationery. You can create a new .adm file if you want to add that to the group policy editor.

2) Use the group policy editor to disable certain toolbar commands in both Outlook and Word, IDs below:

Outlook

Actions | New Message Using More Stationery 5611


Word

Format Background 30403
Format Theme 3623
Format | Background Standard Colors 3224
Format | Background More Colors 2857
Format | Background Fill Effects 2858
Format | Background Printed Watermark 4003
View HTML Source 3902
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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]

Is this specific to 2003? I am running XP on my machine and I do not have a
Microsoft folder under Policies in the registry.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

If you change all references to Office 11 to Office 10, do you find what you
are looking for?

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After furious head scratching, Tyler Barnes asked:

| Is this specific to 2003? I am running XP on my machine and I do not
| have a Microsoft folder under Policies in the registry.
|
| "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| I researched this for my "Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003" book
|| (see signature). There are several other steps you need to take:
||
|| 1) Create a NewStationery value in the
||
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\MailSettings
|| key and leave it blank to prevent users from choosing any default
|| stationery. You can create a new .adm file if you want to add that
|| to the group policy editor.
||
|| 2) Use the group policy editor to disable certain toolbar commands
|| in both Outlook and Word, IDs below:
||
|| Outlook
||
|| Actions | New Message Using More Stationery 5611
||
||
|| Word
||
|| Format Background 30403
|| Format Theme 3623
|| Format | Background Standard Colors 3224
|| Format | Background More Colors 2857
|| Format | Background Fill Effects 2858
|| Format | Background Printed Watermark 4003
|| View HTML Source 3902
|| --
|| Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
|| Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
||
|| and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
|| Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
||
||
|| message ||| Is there a way to administratively keep users from using stationary
||| when sending an email? Stationary only works with HTML emails so I
||| thought there might be a way to prevent HTML emails using a group
||| policy security setting. I am not sure if this post is in thr right
||| area, but I thought I'd give it a shot.
|||
||| Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

As always with registry changes, you would need to create any necessary parent keys that are not already present. Using group policy, as I suggested is the best approach.

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

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