Outlook: Preventing Users from Adding Email Accounts to Outlook

You can edit the registry to prevent users from adding personal email accounts to their coporate Outlook accounts.

Sue Mosher

February 23, 2003

1 Min Read
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How can I prevent users from adding home email accounts (e.g., MSN Hotmail, POP) or other email accounts to their Outlook profiles?

To prevent a user from adding an outside email account to an Outlook profile, create a DisableHTTP entry of type REG_DWORD in the HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice10.0OutlookOptions registry subkey and set the value to 1. Beginning with Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), you can create registry entries to prevent users from adding POP, IMAP, Exchange, and other accounts to their profiles. You would need to create DisablePOP3, DisableIMAP, DisableExchange, and DisableOtherTypes REG_DWORD entries in the HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice10.0OutlookOptions subkey and set the value of each to 1 to disable the addition of any such account. Set the value to 0 to let users add such accounts. For more information about these changes, see the Microsoft article "OL2002: The Options to Prevent an Exchange, POP3, IMAP, and Other Server Types Accounts Are Not Available" (http://support.microsoft.com/
?kbid=317819).

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