the archive menu button in the Tools -- options is gone...

That's normal and expected behavior. It's part of what disabling archiving by GPO does.

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"Goku 316" wrote in message ...
all clients have outlook 2003 pro and Small Biz... all have service pack 2
installed...

and all are configured for cachemode...

clients have archiving enabled... becaus ein the past our exchange server
had limited storage but now all that has changed.

the question is: i have made my own GPO to diable archiving by setting a
value to the registry ket DOAGING.

However the office resource toolkit has added ADM file in the INf folder
which i could use as well... but when i apply that adm file from the toolkit
when restricting autoarchive --- the archive menu button in the Tools --
options is gone...


is this the way the gpo works...??


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Goku 316