How to lockdown stationery for Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003 (924230)

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You must deploy a registry value to lock this down. This way, no matter what a user sets in Outlook, the stationery is used.

The key is:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERS\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\MailSettings

You can use a custom ADM file to do this. The text is:

CLASS MACHINE
CLASS USER

	CATEGORY "Outlook 2003 Custom Stationery Changes"

		POLICY "DCED"
		KEYNAME "Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\MailSettings"
			PART "Force stationery." EDITTEXT EXPANDABLETEXT
			VALUENAME NewStationery
			DEFAULT "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery\DCED.HTM"
			END PART
		END POLICY
	END CATEGORY

For Outlook 2002, substitute the following:

	CATEGORY "Outlook 2002 Custom Stationery Changes"

		POLICY "DCED"
		KEYNAME "Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Common\MailSettings"
			PART "Force stationery." EDITTEXT EXPANDABLETEXT
			VALUENAME NewStationery
			DEFAULT "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery\DCED.HTM"
			END PART
		END POLICY
	END CATEGORY

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