Outlook 2007 - KB923933 prob - Adding a URL to Homepage Address Bo

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Dear all,

Two questions:

What problem am I trying to fix exactly, and what's the right Registry path
to fix it?

Here's the description of the problem:

A problem cropped up on installing NewsGator's (now free) Inbox for Outlook
-- supposedly a good solution for NNTP, and a little better RSS reader than
the Outlook default. (Apparently still lacks functionality in regrouping RSS
feeds.)

Apparently, Outlook 2007 won't add a webpage URL to a "homepage address
box." (The error is to do with the display of NG's "NewsPage" when you open
the NG inbox. I can't tell what NG wants to do, or what MS means by a
"homepage address box," but I assume that means it wants to sync the view
with the www.newsgator.com site.)

The only other detail potentially worth mentioning is that I have several
inboxes. NG is not the default. And the default is not an online inbox. I
have a set of offline folders as my default. Possible that this bears on why
NG is having trouble, but I suspect not.

NG sent me to a KB article, KB923933, which is absolutely opaque. One of the
"methods" to resolve this problem of "adding a URL to a homepage address box"
is to modify a registry DWORD value.

Fine.

But then I tried to find the path in Regedit that the KB article referred
to, AND IT DOESN'T EXIST. Quality control problems with this KB article for
sure. (Anyone know how to ensure MS does a rewrite of a KB article?)

Here's the directions -- i.e., the missing path:

Add a new registry value that lets you turn on or turn off this policy
setting. To do this, follow these steps:1. Exit Outlook 2007.
2. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry subkey:
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Security\
4. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
5. Type NonDefaultStoreScript, and then press ENTER.
6. Right-click NonDefaultStoreScript, and then click Modify.
7. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
8. On the File menu, click Exit to exit Registry Editor.

Now, running Vista x64, with Office 2007 installed, there are two problems
with the path identified in this KB article:

1. The KB article doesn't identify WHICH KEY one should look under in
RegEdit: Is it HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER?

2. The path through the subkeys doesn't exist. Under either main key, the
path stops at Software\Policies\Microsoft. In neither key is there a subkey
off of Microsoft to an Office subkey.

Any help very much appreciated!

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[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook 2007 by default supports folder home pages -- the display of a web page instead of the contents of a folder -- only on your default ..pst file. It won't allow that feature on secondary .pst files unless you change the Windows registry as the instructions dictate, thus making Outlook slightly less secure. If the subkey involved doesn't already exist, you would need to create it -- that's standard procedure. Use HKCU.

 

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Sue, that did the trick. Thanks a mil! And thanks for the swift reply!

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[Eric W. Cahoon]

Its always fun to get incorrect direction. Below are is are the steps I have gone through to enable the modifying the "Home Page" address for a Mail Folder.


1. Exit Outlook.
2. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following key
HKEY_USERS
3. Then locate and then click the following registry subkey:
Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Security
4. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value .
5. Type NonDefaultStoreScript, and then press ENTER.
6. Right-click NonDefaultStoreScript, and then click Modify.
7. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
8. On the File menu, click Exit to exit Registry Editor.
9. Open Outlook and right click the Mail Folder you wish to
modify.
10. Select the "Home Page" tab and enter an URL to use
11. Click the check box labeled "Show home page by default for
this folder"
11. Click OK

Now when you click the Mail Folder you will see the URL displayed in the display pain.