How to Install Outlook 2000 on a Locked Down System

How to Install Outlook 2000 on a Locked Down System

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If you want a secure system, you can lock down system folders and areas of the Windows registry using an access-control list (ACL). With this type of locked-down system, you can be sure that your users cannot accidentally uninstall crucial items, or corrupt their Windows registry data.

However, there are some drawbacks to this level of security. Although most system files now reside in other locations, Microsoft Outlook 2000 still installs some files in the System folder. Subsequently, only a user with administrator privileges can install Outlook on computers with a locked-down System folder.

Outlook 2000 uses the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry subtree to record which Outlook configuration (Corporate/Workgroup or Internet Mail Only) to use and whether Outlook 2000 is the default application for mail, calendar, contacts, and news. On a locked down system, a user cannot run Outlook 2000 without a customized installation that includes these settings, or unless an administrator of that computer installs and runs Outlook 2000.

In other words, if the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subtree is locked, the administrator must either specify configuration settings for each computer in the Office Custom Installation Wizard, or the administrator must run Outlook 2000 once on each computer to configure settings.

To configure Outlook 2000 to install and run on a locked-down system, perform the following tasks before installation:

• Specify Outlook 2000 configuration options
• Set Outlook as the default application for mail, calendar, contacts, and news

Specify Outlook 2000 configuration options

You use the Office Custom Installation Wizard to specify Outlook 2000 configuration options for your users. You can use the options on either the Customize Outlook Installation Options panel or the Modify Setup Properties panel.

To specify Outlook 2000 configuration options on the Customize Outlook Installation Options panel

1. Start the Custom Installation Wizard.
2. On the Customize Outlook Installation Options panel, click Customize Outlook profile and account information.
3. In the Configuration type box, select a configuration.

To specify Outlook 2000 configuration options on the Modify Setup Properties panel

1. Start the Custom Installation Wizard.
2. On the Modify Setup Properties panel, select the OutlookConfiguration property.
3. Click Modify, and in the Value box, select either Corporate or Workgroup or Internet Only.

Note   If you don’t want users to see any prompts when they run Outlook for the first time, do not use the Ask user when Outlook first runs value for the OutlookConfiguration property.

Set Outlook as the default application for mail, calendar, contacts, and news

Outlook can be registered as the default manager for mail, calendar, contacts, and news items. On a locked down system, Outlook must be registered as the default application for all of these items using the Custom Installation Wizard.

To set Outlook as the default mail, calendar, contacts, and news application

1. Start the Custom Installation Wizard.
2. On the Modify Setup Properties panel, click the OUTLOOKASDEFAULTAPP property, and then click Modify.
3. In the Value box, select All.

Move storage files from previous versions of Outlook

Users upgrading from previous versions of Outlook may have one or more PST, OST, PAB, or OAB data storage files on their system. Previous versions of Outlook place these files in the Windows folder, but Outlook 2000 places new storage files in the user's Application Data folder.

The Outlook 2000 upgrade process does not migrate existing storage files from the Windows folder to the Application Data folder. This behavior can cause problems if the Windows folder is locked down, because Outlook 2000 does not have write access to the files. If you want to be able to write to the following files in a locked-down system, make sure that they are stored in the Application Data folder, rather than the Windows folder.

See also

You can include registry information to be installed with Outlook by adding the registry entries and values in the Office Custom Installation Wizard. For more information, see Office Custom Installation Wizard.

For more information about migration issues when upgrading from previous versions of Outlook or other e-mail and scheduling applications, see Upgrading to Outlook 2000.