Can you Password protect the contacts and notes folders?

[Guest]

Please tell me how I can password protect my Outlook contacts and Notes folders

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

You can't password protect single folders in Outlook. You can apply a
password to an entire PST file. There's info here about it:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829971

 

[Guest]

Thank you but I do have a password for the whole file but our IT department
has access to everything. I just wanted to create one more hurdle for them
since I have all my passwords and personal information in those two folders.
Thanks again.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thank you but I do have a password for the whole file but our IT
department has access to everything.

Your IT department won't be able to access your PST (without some effort) if
you're password-protected it as you say.

I just wanted to create one
more hurdle for them since I have all my passwords and personal
information in those two folders.

It's bad practice to keep personal data on your company's computers. Some
would say this is misuse of a company resource and an argument can be made
that once you put data on a company resource, the data then belongs to the
company.

Never make the presumption that anything on a company resource is private.
In fact, it may violate your company's policies if you try to prevent
designated employees from accessing anything on a company resource and it
could be grounds for dismissal.