Allow changing of Outlook anywhere options after applying GPO
Policy Setting
Configure Outlook Anywhere user interface options        Enabled
                                                                                      All config UI enabled

I have used the outlook2010 GPO template to configure outlook anywhere settings. However after enabling these options, the user can no longer change the outlook anywhere settings (all greyed out). So I enabled the above GPO in outlook 2010 ADMX template. "This policy setting allows you to determine whether users can view and change user interface (UI) options for Outlook Anywhere.If you enable this policy setting, users can view and change UI options for Outlook Anywhere.If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users will be able to use the Outlook Anywhere feature, but they will not be able to view or change UI options for it."

However after performing gpupdate, it has no effect, users still cannot change any of the outlook anywhere settings. Here are the download locations for the admx templates if anyone else would like to test and confirm this issue.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18968

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2426686

June 6th, 2012 2:35pm

Hi,

Please check if the value of the following registry key has been set correctly by Group Policy:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\14.0\outlook\rpc
Value name: EnableRPCTunnelingUI
Type: REG_DWORD
To enable all configuration the value should be: 1


Sincerely
Rex Zhang

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June 7th, 2012 10:08am
I do not have the issue with changing rpc settings via gpo, what i am having problem with is allowing the user to be able to make changes afterward, all the settings get greyed out. What then is the purpose of the gpo "Configure Outlook Anywhere user interface options"?
June 7th, 2012 2:22pm

The purpose of the GPO is to force the settings. If you only want to deploy default settings and allow the users to make changes to the settings afterwards, then you shouldn't use GPO but the OCT.

To deploy default mail profile settings via a prf-file see;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/deployprf.htm

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June 7th, 2012 3:50pm

What registry key needs to be adjusted to allow for the Outlook anywhere option to be ungreyed.   I have to add another account to the outlook profile, but can not get it to work since it is on a different server than what is set by group policy.   Since the option to check or uncheck outlook anywhere is greyed out, I am no way to turn on or off this option or adjust the servers for this account.   

Any advice on what registry key to adjust would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

February 8th, 2015 10:39am
i've encountered the same issue. deleted the registry entries in above location (leave EnableRPCTunnelingUI=1), then it will allow you to setup 2 exchange accounts in one profile with diff outlook anywhere settings. add users to the local admin group temporarily.
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April 22nd, 2015 2:25am

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