Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 (eBook)

front cover 1
copyright 5
table of contents 6
front matter 10
Introduction 10
Is this book for you? 10
What you need to know 11
What tools you need 11
How this book is organized 12
Acknowledgments 14
body 18
1. Outlook Data and Settings Locations 18
1.1 Understanding Outlook accounts and data storage 18
1.2 Outlook settings in the Windows registry 23
1.3 Outlook files in the user’s Windows profile folders 29
1.4 Outlook settings in the information store 31
1.5 Understanding Windows’ roaming profiles and folder redirection 48
1.6 Summary 53
2. Outlook Configuration Techniques 56
2.1 Tools in the Office Resource Kit 56
2.2 Using the Office Profile Wizard 57
2.3 Using the Custom Installation and Custom Maintenance Wizards 73
2.4 Using Group Policy to configure Microsoft Outlook 102
2.5 Choosing the configuration method 120
2.6 Summary 121
3. Configuring Outlook Mail Profiles 122
3.1 Understanding mail profiles 123
3.2 Understanding .prf files 124
3.3 Using the resource kit tools to build .prf files 125
3.4 The structure of a .prf file 145
3.5 Summary 162
4. Advanced .prf File Usage 164
4.1 Using scripts to modify .prf files 164
4.2 Adding settings not supported by the Custom Installation Wizard 174
4.3 How to find additional settings 180
4.4 Limitations to .prf files 192
4.5 Summary 192
5. Exchange Account Configuration 194
5.1 Choosing your Exchange connectivity 195
5.2 Configuring Cached Exchange mode 204
5.3 Configuring Exchange 2003 RPC over HTTP 215
5.4 Connecting to a new Exchange server 218
5.5 Miscellaneous Exchange issues 221
5.6 Summary 223
6. Locking Down Outlook 226
6.1 Locking down Outlook— the big picture 226
6.2 Threats to information in transit and at rest 227
6.3 Threats to unwanted information dissemination 240
6.4 Spam and other threats to incoming mail 246
6.5 Understanding the Object Model Guard 262
6.6 Other programmability security settings 266
6.7 Summary 271
7. Managing the Outlook Security Settings Folder 274
7.1 Limitations of the Outlook Security Settings folder 275
7.2 Setting up the Outlook Security Settings folder 276
7.3 Configuring Outlook to use the Security Settings folder 281
7.4 Understanding how Outlook uses the Security Settings folder 282
7.5 Creating security-settings items 285
7.6 Summary 299
8. Special Configuration Scenarios 300
8.1 Deploying on Terminal Server 300
8.2 Moving a user to a new machine 305
8.3 Upgrading from earlier Outlook versions 310
8.4 Managing multilanguage installations 319
8.5 Hotfixes and service packs 322
8.6 Summary 329
9. Configuring Other Outlook Options 332
9.1 COM add-ins and VBA code 332
9.2 Group Policy and user-preference settings 334
9.3 Mail-profile- specific settings 347
9.4 Folder-related settings 357
9.5 Some configuration challenges 368
9.6 Summary 370
back matter 372
A. Outlook 2003 Policy Settings 372
B. Additional Outlook Registry Settings 450
B.1 Office administrative template settings 451
B.2 Outlook hotfix settings 455
B.3 Additional CIW/CMW settings 458
B.4 Confirmation dialogs 461
B.5 Other Outlook settings 461
C. Disabling Menu and Toolbar Commands and Shortcut Keys 464
C.1 Disabling menu and toolbar commands 464
C.2 Providing user feedback on disabled commands 467
C.3 Disabling shortcut keys 468
C.4 Command and shortcut key IDs 470
D. Other Resources 486
About the Authors 492
Index 494