Hi,
The answer given by Jason is not correct, as any menu option in Office can de disabled by GPO as described here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179143(v=office.14).aspx
After adding the Office 2010 GPO templates to the domain, in Group Policy Management go to:
User Configuration / Polices / Administrative Templates / Microsoft Outlook 2010 / Disable Items in User Interface / Custom
Add the following Policy ID's: 19987, 19995 and 19991.
This will disable the three menu items "Do Not Send a Response" below the buttons Accept, Tentative and Decline. When the mouse pointer points to the disabled ("grayed out") menu item a message is shown telling the user that this
menu is disabled by the administrator.
The Policy ID's for any menu item may be found in the Excel sheets which may be downloaded through a link in the article I have linked to above.
The above can be done with Office 2013 too, and to some extent with Office 2007; although I could not find the Policy ID for this exact menu item in Office 2007.
The question is why Microsoft made the menu item "Do Not Send a Response", as it seems to have no useful purpose and is a source of confusion for the users. And when used, the meeting organizer will not get the accurate number of attendees for
the meeting.
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January 18th, 2013 9:50am
Hi Paul,
Great recommendation, It worked for me :)
However I have 1 small issue and I was wondering if you had any insight. When I was following the ADM Template install I first simply did the add/remove of the template in GPO, unfortuntely That didn't give me a custom directory as mentioned above or
the setting described. I figured I did it wrong.
So I removed the template and followed the ADMX process and it worked! found everything as described in your recommendation added the codes and was happy.
However when the old template file was in there I did play with a setting that had checkbox setting for disabling the help button which in turn disabled options as well in Outlook. Didn't realize this until next day that Outlook options was greyed out,
when I went back to GPO I could not find that setting for the life of me. So I removed the template from sysvol and then redid the add/remove of the ADM file, But it didn't load like it did the first time as now has the custom folder showing up and that
original policy that I modified was still no where to be found. I checked 'All settings' and could not find anything related to what I played with in GPO.
Would you happen to know what the current enable/disable ID is for Outlook options and help button? or where this setting might be in GPO? I always thought that if it wasn't in GPO it wouldn't be applied, but I can't find it, Hence my next step as I am hopeful
that if I disable it and enable it in the new template that it might bring options back.
Your thoughts?
(I am open to any suggestions at this point)
Thank you in advance!
John Forgione
October 17th, 2013 8:30pm
Ohh Nevermind, I found the issue last night, idiot me realized that the first template I tested was the office adm and not outlook. Once I clued in I was able to find the setting. Oddly enough it kinda went against my impression of GPO being dynamic
in the sense that if it's not there it's not enforced, but if you enable something from a template and remove that template the policy will still enforce that setting.
Either way it's all fixed.
Thanks again for your first post as it did help me disable the do not respond.
C
October 18th, 2013 12:37pm
Hi,
Brilliant, that did the trick! Thank you! But I also noticed that if you right-click the meeting request it is possible to select "Do Not Send a Response" in the dialog window that popsup. Can that be disable as well?
Regards
Joakim
August 21st, 2015 4:49am
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