Disabling use of stationary for all clients

[jferguson-onco]

I am looking for a way to disable the use of stationary for our company
email. We have Exchange 2003 installed on Server 2003, all clients are using
Outlook 2003.
I read an article about downloading the Office 2003 resource kit, that it
contains templates that I can add to my group policy manager.
I have done this already. I applied the Outlook 2003 template to the policy
manager and disabled the use of stationary fonts, this is the only reference
I have seen to stationary.
I go to my pc and open Outlook and I am still able to apply a stationary to
my email. Am I missing something? What else do I need to do in order to
prevent users from applying stationary to their email?
Thank you in advance!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I researched this for my "Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003" book, which will be published by Digital Press this fall. There are 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:

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
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