permisons for creating .pst files

[eduardo]

Hi, I wanted to know if there is any way that I can assign permissons for
which users can create .pst files and which users can't?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you want to completely disable the ability to create a .pst file through the Outlook user interface, you can use this registry entry:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook
Value name: DisablePST
Value type: REG_DWORD
Values: 1=disable .pst use; 0=allow .pst use (default)

Outlook 2000 would be Office\9.0. There is also a recent Outlook 2003 hotfix that allows it to be deployed in HKCU rather than HKLM, and another one to allow the continued use of SharePoint proxy .pst files.

When DisablePST is set to 1, users will not be able to create Personal Folders .pst files and most features that depend on .pst files will be disabled.

Oddly enough, setting DisablePST to 1 does not disable the ability to open an existing .pst file. To block that feature, you can disable the File | Open | Outlook Data File command with a Group Policy Object using the setting "Disable command bar buttons and menu item." That command's ID is 5576.

See these MSKB artcles:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=258277 (Outlook 2000)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323244 (Outlook 2002)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=896515 (Outlook 2003)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=897658 (Outlook 2003)


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

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

 

[eduardo]

the thing is I don't want to completely disable it, I wanted to see if there
was any way like to just assign some kind of permison, and when it was needed
to disable that permisson so the person could create a pst file.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The registry entry that I described is the only setting that governs whether the user can create PST files.

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

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