GPO setting for quick launch

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Can anyone tell me if there are any GPO settings for XP or 2000 that can be
used to configure the quick launch bar?
We have an annoying re-occurance of the outlook icon in the quick launch
bar. It is possible to delete it manually, but it reappears as soon as
outlook is started.
 
Jo Winchester said:
Can anyone tell me if there are any GPO settings for XP or 2000 that can be
used to configure the quick launch bar?
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You can practically always make (any) changes using a GPO
through either the Administrative Templates (registry settings)
section or through Windows Settings->Scripting by running
a program.

But for specific (pre-configuration) settings...

I don't know but look for it in the User portion of the GPO
since that is User specific generally. Any such settings
will likely be in Administrative Templates.
We have an annoying re-occurrence of the outlook icon in the quick launch
bar. It is possible to delete it manually, but it reappears as soon as
outlook is started.
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Likely Outlook is too specific for a pre-set item.

I believe the recurrence is a Registry setting but the files can
be deleted with a (User) Logon Script that removes the .LNK files.

This path (change) will find the files:

cd /d %userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick
Launch

Deleting these two items would likely fix it (at least temporarily):
Launch Microsoft Office Outlook.lnk
Launch Outlook Express.lnk (unless you want OE)
 
Thanks for your reply.

It's really the GPO setting that I'm after, I have looked through the User
Administrative templates, but have not found it so far!
 
Jo Winchester said:
Thanks for your reply.

It's really the GPO setting that I'm after, I have looked through the User
Administrative templates, but have not found it so far!
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Those can be extended -- you might try the
Office Administrators toolkit/web site.

There are various ADM templates for extending
the GPOs to manage some parts of Office.

Perhaps what you need is in the samples or at least
documented.
 
It should not re-appear every time you launch outlook - only the very first
time that you create the profile for any new user when you configure the
e-mail server settings.

Are you using a standardized image for your client machines? If so, is the
hidden default user profile in your image configured with this x-tra outlook
icon in the quick launch bar? As you know, all new local profiles are using
this profile as a template to create each new user profile on the client?

Best Regards,

John Powell
 
John Powell said:
It should not re-appear every time you launch outlook - only the very first
time that you create the profile for any new user when you configure the
e-mail server settings.
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I think you will find that the Outlook icon is being
produced by a registry setting so if you only remove
the shortcut it WILL just return.

One has to remove the registry setting.
 
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