Disabling Outlook Signature in Group Policy does not work!

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tpenn - 25 Oct 2004 19:09 GMT

Greetings,

I set up in Group Policy for all users (default policy and individual OUs)
to disable replys and send Outlook 2003 signatures (Windows 2003 server). It
is setup properly but is not working.

Have anyone had this problem or could offer a solution? Let me know.

Thanks,

Toni P.

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 25 Oct 2004 19:23 GMT

Which policy settings did you use? What behavior did you expect and what did
you get?

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> Toni P.

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tpenn - 25 Oct 2004 19:53 GMT

Sue,

I enabled "Disable signatures for new messages" and "Disable signatures for
replies and forwards" under Outlook 2003 under Administrative Templates in
the default Group Policy and for every individual Organizational Unit. I
expected it to disable Outlook signatures and it is not disabling Outlook
signatures.

Do you have any suggestions? It is appears there is a bug in this option
since all other Outlook GP changes that I recently have I have tested are
working.

Thanks in advance,

Toni P.

> Which policy settings did you use? What behavior did you expect and what did
> you get?
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 25 Oct 2004 20:32 GMT

I tested it with RegMon running and it looks like the NewSignature and
ReplySignature values are not being read at all by Outlook. I have another
open issue with Microsoft on policies/registry settings (DisablePST not
working) and will try to add this one to the list. If I find out something,
I'll post back to this thread. No telling when that might be, though.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 26 Oct 2004 00:26 GMT

I confirmed that those policy settings are not supported in Outlook 2003,
now that Outlook uses per-account signatures.

FWIW, these per-account signature settings are buried very deeply in the
Windows registry, in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles key. Under Outlook
mail profile has its own key, and each mail profile key has a subkey named
9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676. Under this key are a number of
undocumented settings, including those for per-account signatures. So a
possible solution might be a script that runs on user login to delete any
per-account signature settings. I'll post back if I come up with other
ideas.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

>I tested it with RegMon running and it looks like the NewSignature and
>ReplySignature values are not being read at all by Outlook.
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>>> > Have anyone had this problem or could offer a solution? Let me know.

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tpenn - 26 Oct 2004 14:43 GMT

Sue,

Thanks so much. This confirms what we suspected. We are deleting the user
signature folder upon logon to go around this.

Thanks again,

Toni P.

> I confirmed that those policy settings are not supported in Outlook 2003,
> now that Outlook uses per-account signatures.
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Jason - 26 Oct 2004 17:11 GMT

> Greetings,
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> Toni P.

Outlook Profiler and have a good day!

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