Stage 5 Overview: Customize Components

In this stage of the Internet Explorer Customization wizard, corporate administrators can customize the following:

• Your users' news and mail servers, if you're including Outlook Express in your customized package.
• UNIX mapping to associate extensions with files or programs for UNIX browser packages.
• UNIX programs to specify the programs that will run when the user performs mail, news, HTML editing, and print tasks.
• IMAP e-mail server settings for your users, if you are deploying Outlook Express and have an IMAP server.
• Outlook Express custom content, by adding your own welcome e-mail message to welcome users and customizing the InfoPane that appears when users start the program.
• Outlook Express custom settings, such as setting default mail and news clients, providing assistance to users who need to obtain additional mail accounts, and creating a default message rules file for your users.
• Outlook Express user interface, such as whether the Folder bar, Folder list, MSN Messenger Contacts, Status bar, or Outlook bar are displayed.
• Outlook Express compose settings, if you want to provide a corporate disclaimer or signature with Internet newsgroup or e-mail messages.
• Windows Address Book Directories, if you want to provide Internet directory services to your users and customize Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers.
• System policies and settings, to preset or control settings, including options for the browser, e-mail, security, and the desktop.