Question : I would like to prevent two or more instances of outlook being open at same time

How do I prevent multiple instances of outlook (same profile) being open at same time - sometimes impatient users click icon several times nothing I say will prevent that so what can I do?

Thank you

David

Answer : I would like to prevent two or more instances of outlook being open at same time

I think either you sign some code yourself, or your users contend with "this session has macros - enable them?" message each time..

Perhaps modifying their shortcut to point to OLSession.vbs...

'OLSession.vbs
Const olFolderInbox = 6
strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * From Win32_Process Where Name = 'outlook.exe'")

If colItems.Count = 0 Then
    Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    Set objNamespace = objOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
    Set objFolder = objNamespace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
    objFolder.Display
Else
    MsgBox "Please be patient, Outlook is still loading...", vbOKOnly, "What's the hurry?"
    wscript.quit
End If

Set objFolder = Nothing
Set objNamespace = Nothing
Set objOutlook = Nothing
wscript.quit