Outlook 2003 to 2010 migration problem using Microsoft USMT

When using the microsoft User State Migration Tool (USMT) to migrate users from a Windows XP/Office 2003 environment to a Windows 7/Office 2010 environement

I encountered the following error messages when launching Outlook 2010

“Cannot start Microsoft Outlook, cannot open the outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opended. The attempt to log on to Microsoft exchange has failed”

“Cannot open your default e-mail folders. The Attempt to log on to Microsoft Exchange has failed”

The resolution to this was to ensure i was using USMT v4. (this cannot be downloaded on its own, its part of the windows 7 IAK download)

And install a patch to office 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2023591

After this the migration was succesful. Users Mailboxes, Signatures, Arhives and nickname settings all migrated as expected.

Set the Outlook 2003 Default Save Path

By default Outloook saves the My Documents and there is no menu option to change this path.
There is however an override key that you can add to the registry


HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options
DefaultPath (REG_STRING) = "path"

For full details see
MS Office - Changing Outlook default SAVE location

APP-V Application lockdown with Appsense now Available

Up until now it was not possible to use Appsense Application Manager to lockdown APP-V sequenced applications. The Engine could not interpret the EXEs running on the virtualized drive (eg. Q:\) correctly.

With the release of Appsense Application Manager 8.1.442 This is now possible.

This is a great step forward as virtualized applications become more commonplace and products like Appsense Application Manager allow control over access to these applications.

This will be particularly good news for Microsoft Office deployments where Appsense is recommended to control access to the product. Microsoft Office is a per device licenced product and as such using AD group membership and NTFS permissions is not considered enough.

MS Access 2003 - Security Level control via registry

To Control the MS Access Macro Security Level Set the following keys

(note setting HKLM will override HKCU)

HKCU\software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Access\Security\Level

3 = High
2 = Medium
1 = Low

Removing MS access Security Warning : Unsafe Expressions are not blocked

To Remove the MS Access warning

"Security Warning : unsafe expressions are not blocked"

Set the following registry value
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\SandBoxMode to 3