Good day,

I have been tasked to see if there is a way to enable outlook to alternate between cached on non cached mode.  This must be based on whether the user is logging onto his primary device for cached mode, and whether he is logging onto a temp device for non-cached mode.

Can this be done using group policy? I know we can determine a primary device using SCCM, but not how to enable GPO to read from SCCM and then apply the correct setting.

Windows 7 SP1 x 32

SCCM 2012 SP1

Server 2008.

Any info on how this can be achieved?

R

Hi Carlo,

Before going further, to use group policy to manage Office, we need to download administrative templates files for Office from Microsoft download center.

>>This must be based on whether the user is logging onto his primary device for cached mode, and whether he is logging onto a temp device for non-cached mode.

For the Outlook setting we want is under User Configuration in GPO, we can create a new GPO, enable Loopback Merge processing mode in the GPO, configure the Outlook setting in the GPO, and then utilize Security Filtering to just apply the GPO to the users primary device account.

Regarding Loopback processing, the following article can be referred to for more information.

User Group Policy loopback processing mode

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978513.aspx

Windows Server: Understand User Group Policy Loopback Processing Mode

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2548.windows-server-understand-user-group-policy-loopback-processing-mode.aspx

Regarding security filtering, the following article can be referred to for more information.

Security filtering using GPMC

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781988(v=WS.10).aspx

Best regards,

Frank Shen

• Marked as answer by Frank Shen5Microsoft contingent staff, Moderator Friday, August 08, 2014 1:12 AM

Hi Carlo,

Were you successful in implement this. I have been assigned exactly the same task to enable outlook to alternate between cached on non-cached mode based on if users are logging onto their primary device. Any pointers will be helpful.

Regards, Gaurav

• Edited by Gaurav.Garg1 2 hours 9 minutes ago