Is it possible to remotely administer Outlook Address Books via reg key
or group policy? I need to remove several Public Folder Address books
from showing up in users Outlook Address book and the only way I know
how is to go around 300 workstations and do this manually.

you could remove their permissions from the Public folder.

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Is it possible to remotely administer Outlook Address Books via reg key
or group policy? I need to remove several Public Folder Address books
from showing up in users Outlook Address book and the only way I know
how is to go around 300 workstations and do this manually.

Adding a little to Diane's post, folder-level permissions are stored ... on
the folder. Get the free PFDavAdmin tool from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...4-E2422C0AB424.
It can manage and report on mailbox folder permissions, as well as public
folder permissions. More info is he

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tec...5/05/BlogTales
A Guide To Public Folder Tools

Hal
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Is it possible to remotely administer Outlook Address Books via reg key
or group policy? I need to remove several Public Folder Address books
from showing up in users Outlook Address book and the only way I know
how is to go around 300 workstations and do this manually.

Thanks for responding soo fast!

I tried that and when the Public Folder is set to show up first in the
Address Book, when creating a new email message and then clicking on
the To, I receive an error: "The address list could not be displayed.
The Contacts folder associated with this address list could not be
opened; it may have been moved or deleted, or you do not have
permissions."

I would want the users not to experience any warnings or errors.

Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I] wrote:
Adding a little to Diane's post, folder-level permissions are stored ... on
the folder. Get the free PFDavAdmin tool from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...4-E2422C0AB424.
It can manage and report on mailbox folder permissions, as well as public
folder permissions. More info is he

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tec...5/05/BlogTales
A Guide To Public Folder Tools

Hal
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Hal Hostetler, CPBE --
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com

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Is it possible to remotely administer Outlook Address Books via reg key
or group policy? I need to remove several Public Folder Address books
from showing up in users Outlook Address book and the only way I know
how is to go around 300 workstations and do this manually.

You'd have to run a script on each machine to set the MAPIFolder.ShowAsOutlookAB property for that folder to False.

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Thanks for responding soo fast!

I tried that and when the Public Folder is set to show up first in the
Address Book, when creating a new email message and then clicking on
the To, I receive an error: "The address list could not be displayed.
The Contacts folder associated with this address list could not be
opened; it may have been moved or deleted, or you do not have
permissions."

I would want the users not to experience any warnings or errors.

Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I] wrote:
Adding a little to Diane's post, folder-level permissions are stored .... on
the folder. Get the free PFDavAdmin tool from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...4-E2422C0AB424.
It can manage and report on mailbox folder permissions, as well as public
folder permissions. More info is he

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tec...5/05/BlogTales
A Guide To Public Folder Tools

Hal
--
Hal Hostetler, CPBE --
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com

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Is it possible to remotely administer Outlook Address Books via reg key
or group policy? I need to remove several Public Folder Address books
from showing up in users Outlook Address book and the only way I know
how is to go around 300 workstations and do this manually.