Bug in the Group Police Admin Template OUTLK11.ADM

There is a bug in the administrative template OUTLK11.ADM distributed with
the Office 2003 Resource Kit, and it is not corrected in the SP2-version of
the file. It is the key "New Mail Desktop Alert" that does not work as it
should.

The default implemented in Outlook 2003 is to have this feature enabled. The
user can disable or change the parameters for it in the Outlook 2003 client
without problem. But if you try to use it in a group policy the problem
starts.

First try to enable it:
Figure missing Showing properties dialogue: "enabled" and no check in the
check box.

Apply:
Figure missing Showing the state "disabled" in the editor
OOPS!

Try again:
Figure missing Showing Showing properties dialogue: "enabled" and no check
in the check box. An impossible combination!
Figure missingShowing the state "enabled" in the editor


OK, maybe the text at the checkbox is wrong, it should maybe be
"Check to enable New Mail Desktop Alert; Uncheck to disable".

But the really bad thing is that this policy will disable the alert on the
clients, and the users will not even be able to enable it!

So what to do. Obviously "Enabled" in the GPMC means disabled in the client.
I edited the outlk11.adm:

POLICY "New Mail Desktop Alert"
KEYNAME Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Pr eferences
PART "Check to disable New Mail Desktop Alert; Uncheck to enable" CHECKBOX
VALUENAME NewmailDesktopAlerts
VALUEON NUMERIC 0
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 1
END PART
END POLICY

was changed into

POLICY "New Mail Desktop Alert"
KEYNAME Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Pr eferences
PART "Check to enable New Mail Desktop Alert; Uncheck to disable" CHECKBOX
VALUENAME NewmailDesktopAlerts
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END PART
END POLICY

Now it works nicely - though I don't understand why that checkbox is there.
Not configured - enabled - disabled; that is clear enough for me. But at
least - with this new adm-file the setting works: enabled is enabled,
disabled is disabled and the check to enable enables me to enable the feature.

Daniel Rubenson
Lund
Sweden


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