If your company has decided to take the stance that no archiving is to be allowed, it can be quite a long process to disable all access to the archiving within Outlook 2016. There are a couple of builtin settings to disable automatic archiving but these settings don’t disable the main Archive button along the navigation ribbon. To disable the Archive button on the ribbon takes a different approach. Follow the steps below to put this in place:
Before:
- Create or amend a group policy and navigate to the following location:
- Enable the following setting:
Disable command bar buttons and menu items
- On the ‘Show’ button enter the application button ID number (for Archive it is 26308)
- Confirm the setting by clicking OK on the open windows
- On the test machine, log off and back on again
- Open Outlook the Archive button will appear greyed out
For other Office application ID’s use the this link
