01 July 2014

Outlook DisablePST

A few people have mentioned the DisablePST registry to me in the last couple of weeks, and wondered whether it had any effect on Enterprise Vault.

The short answer is no.

Read on for more ..



The DisablePST registry key is used to literally stop users using PST files. They can’t open existing ones, and can’t create new ones. It doesn’t affect programmatic access. Here is a Microsoft article which talks about it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896515/EN-US

eg

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook

DisablePST DWORD = 1

To enable 

Set the DisablePST to 0

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