Disabling Preview Pane via GPO

[JerkyChew]

Hi,
I'm looking for a way to disable the Preview pane organization-wide via a
GPO. I've found that there are preview pane settings in the outlk10.adm file
that comes with the ORK, but there is no option to turn the pane off.

Does anyone know of custom settings I could add to the adm file that would
make this work?

 

[greg mansius [MSFT]]

Because of the way the Preview Pane setting is stored in your profile, it
cannot be disabled via GPO. The best you can hope for with a GPO is to
disable the menu item for the preview pane. This will prevent users from
enabling the preview pane but it will not stop the preview pane from
displaying if already enabled for a folder. Please let me know if you need
the command bar ID to disable the menu item via GPO.

There is also the /nopreview command line switch but you would have to
guarantee Outlook is started with this switch every time the program is
started.

Hope this helps.