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Remote client customization

You can enable and disable client features by creating an administrator script in the Admin Console, then pushing it to client machines.

Fastpath

Admin Console: System > Settings > Jive for Office / Jive for Outlook > Advanced

If you have many users of the Jive for Office or Jive for Outlook clients and need to disable some features, you may want to create a script and push changes to the registry on each client computer. The script creates a series of keys on the client. Note that the changes you make to HKEY_CURRENT_USER always override the settings in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. For a list of the keys and what they control, see Remote client customization reference (for Jive for Office) and Remote client customization reference (for Jive for Outlook). For the list of features you can enable and disable, refer to Client installation parameters (for Jive for Office) and Client installation parameters (for Jive for Outlook).

This feature is available from Jive for Office and Jive for Outlook 5.0.1.2.

You can select which features to enable and disable in the Admin Console and then generate a script by using the following steps:

  1. In the Admin Console, go to System > Settings > Jive for Office / Jive for Outlook > Advanced.

  2. Under Shared settings, select the settings you want to propagate to the client.

  3. Click Generate.

This generates a settings.reg file to run on the clients' machines. The script updates the default settings for the Jive for Office and Jive for Outlook plugins.

  • Remote client customization reference Remote client customization creates a script that modifies the registry keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Jive or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Jive. You can use it to override authentication settings or to auto-populate the community URL for new users.

  • Remote client customization reference Remote client customization creates a script that modifies the registry keys for Jive for Outlook. You can use it to override authentication settings or to auto-populate the community URL for new users.

Related

Administering Jive for Office and Jive for Outlook