Thanks for all your comments, and in an ideal world we would find another way, alas, my particular would isnt ideal, and fixing things on a shoe string is how its got to be.
I agree with some other people I have spoken to in that restore backups to recover one deleted email is, well, over the top really. If a few simple changes can prevent this from happening and wont cost anything then it means it can be implemented. Thanks for the advice though. -----Original Message----- From: deji Agba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 January 2004 06:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPO and the Outlook Dumpster your protection against this "CYA" type of deletion is backup. If you maintain a diligent backup of your Exchange Server, you can always do a restore to your offline server whenever you need to "prove" something. Disabling access to the "Recover Deleted Items" folder will not buy you much with a determined user who wants to cover his/her track. Shift-Del will not send deleted items to that folder, you know? Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I www.akomolafe.com www.iyaburo.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: Oliver Marshall Sent: Tue 1/13/2004 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPO and the Outlook Dumpster Because while the Recover Deleted Items addin allows you...err...recover deleted items a user can also delete things permanently. We have had people 'covering their tracks' by deleting emails. I don't want to disable the feature all together as it's a useful IT tool for managers etc, but not for users. Olly -----Original Message----- From: David, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 January 2004 19:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPO and the Outlook Dumpster I'm just wondering why you would want to implement such a thing. -----Original Message----- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPO and the Outlook Dumpster It strikes me that it might be part of the Office Administration Templates, which can be distributed via GPOs, but aren't actually part of the GPO settings. http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2003/five/ch18/MntA04.htm There are similar templates for Office XP and Office 2000 that might do the trick. Roger -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ActiveDir] GPO and the Outlook Dumpster > > > Does anyone know a GPO setting that will allow me to prevent users > from accessing the Recover Deleted Items addin in Outlook ? Someone on > an exchange mailing list said that there is a GP setting to prevent > this addin being loaded. > > Olly > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/