Outlook Group Policy & Signatures

[Mike Snetzko]

Hi All --

Sorry for the cross post. I am looking for a way via Group Policy to "turn
off" the signature function in Outlook. We will be adding a default
signature for the company via a 3rd-party product at the Exchange Gateway,
and I don't want any of my users to be able to set one manually.

I have downloaded the Office 2003 Gorup Policy .xls file and did a search,
but I haven't been able to find the specific key to turn off the sigs..

Any thoughts?

Thanks.
Mike

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Curiously, the new SP2 version of the .adm file is missing settings that are included in the SP1 version, specifically those detailed in MSKB article 898076 that set the NewSignature and ReplySignature string values in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\MailSettings to blank strings. I don't know why the new .adm file doesn't include those, but I do know that using them will block some other options on the Tools | Options | Mail Format dialog, so you need to check if you can live with that.

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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