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Disable Outlook Anywhere?

I have Outlook Anywhere enabled/configured on my CAS server and everything is working as expected.  However, I have a high level support group who would like for Outlook Anywhere to be disabled on their client's desktop machines (i.e. computers that don't ever leave the office).  They are convinced that OL Anywhere is causing performance problems, and rather than burn cycle proving them wrong, I'd like to just disable this setting on those specific machines.  

The problem is that it's not as simple as just unchecking the box to use OL Anywhere in the email account settings as they return for various reasons suck as a new OL profile is created or when network connection changes occure, etc. - basically when OL uses the Autodiscover service then the settings are pulled back down by Outlook.

Is there a registry key or something that can be set on a client basis that will disable this for good?
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Not positive, but this may be what you are looking for:
http://office-outlook.com/outlook-forum/index.php/m/531713/#msg_531713
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use CMDlet to do so :
Disable-OutlookAnywhere -Server:CAS01
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998804.aspx
Have a look at Configure Outlook Anywhere in Outlook 2007
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179036.aspx


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Unfortunately, I cannot use Set-CasMailbox with the -MAPIBlockOutlookRpcHttp switch as these same users may need to utilize OL Anywhere from another computer such as a laptop.
Having said that, I also cannot disable OL Anywhere on the CAS as there are those that do indeed use it.
I'll see what I can get from the GPO.
Thanks.
<I have a high level support group who would like for Outlook Anywhere to be disabled on their client's desktop machines>

If they want the clients to be blocked then run:
Set-CasMailbox -MAPIBlockOutlookRpcHttp:$True. This will block OL Anywhere for all clients

<Is there a registry key or something that can be set on a client basis >

To then enable OL Anywhere on a per client basis run:
Set-CasMailbox -Identity <Mailbox_Name> -MAPIBlockOutlookRpcHttp:$False. This will enable OL Anywhere to be ran only on the mailboxes specified, but will still be disabled for everyone else.

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Set-CasMailbox -MAPIBlockOutlookRpcHttp:$True does not appear to work for me. I've tried it, restarted the client, and they can still access using OA.

Any ideas?