Stopping Outlook from running

[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

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

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.