login message

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OylE

Hello, I have a potential customer that wants to set up a login message
when users log in to Outlook. On the order of "This is a company email system,
not yours. Any emails you may send out of a personal nature will be monitored,
and you could be getting yourself in trouble". That sort of thing.

I KNOW this can be done at the server through a Group Policy, and that's
how I intend to handle it. But can it be done JUST for Outlook? The customer
envisions the users being able to clcik on either a "yes" or "no" button,
but the procedure I know of only furnishes an "ok" button. I'm not a lawyer,
but I think that it's just as legally binding; if the user DOESN'T click the
"OK" button, he doesn't login.

Can this be done JUST for OUTLOOK? I realize that to "login to outlook" as
the customer asks, you have to login to the network, FIRST.

Thanks a lot. Any input will be appreciated.

OylE
 
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Brian Tillman

OylE said:
Hello, I have a potential customer that wants to set up a login
message
when users log in to Outlook. On the order of "This is a company
email system, not yours. Any emails you may send out of a personal
nature will be monitored, and you could be getting yourself in
trouble". That sort of thing.

I KNOW this can be done at the server through a Group Policy, and
that's
how I intend to handle it. But can it be done JUST for Outlook?
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We do it with a custom-built add-in.
 
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OylE

OK, how about some more details? I'm not much of a programmer, but I'd like
to give it a shot. Can you do it in a script? VBA? How do you do it?
 
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Brian Tillman

OylE said:
OK, how about some more details?
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I would if I could, but I had nothing to do with producing it and don't know
who did. It was a corporate mandate, however.
Can you do it in a script? VBA? How do
you do it?
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I which I knew. Outlook is always installed via a tool called Radia here,
pushed to the desktop from a server. It's all packaged up and the desktop
user has no say in how the installation proceeds.

Prior to the add-in, someone here actually rewrote the OUTLOOK.EXE image to
display the message. That rewritten OUTLOOK.EXE then called the real
OUTLOOK.EXE once the user agreed to the message.
 
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