Stopping Outlook from running

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Peter

Hi,

We use a different email client in our organisation, and have no need
for MS outlook.

A number of our computers run from remote locations, so its hard to
control them physically.

I am looking for something that I can run in a login script that will
prevent MS outlook and Outlook Express from running.

The only thing I can think of is a batch file to delete the
outlook.exe. Does anyone know of a better solution, or a registry entry
to do this.

thanks

Peter
 
How about use cacls to set the ntfs permissions on the executable so that
the NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM has full control and do not add/list any others.
Downside is that the when running a login script to do this, end users must
be admins on their boxes to have the rights reset.

Another option might be a software restrict policy object to disallow both
executables. Downside is that you have to be in an Active Directory
environment and all users on Windows XP to accomplish.
 
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