Remove/Reset/Disable Outlook 2003 sp2 Stationery and Signatures.

[loupgarou]

I'm buying a corporate wide disclaimer/signature software.

I need to clean out the existing settings for all users who use both
stationery and signatures.

I'm using outlook2003 sp2, I've added in the office sp2 resource kit
office11.adm, but it doesn't seem to contain : (maybe the link I used
was outdated?)

"disable signatures for new messages" and
"disable signatures for replies and forwards".

so
how do I clean out stationery and signatures?.. I don't need to disable
them, just need to set them to blank.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Create your own .adm file to assist in deploying the NewSignature and ReplySignature string values in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\MailSettings key. Set both values to blank to disable user access to signatures.

For stationery, there are several 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. Again, you can put that in your own .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
View HTML Source 3902

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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