Automatic creation of email accounts

[NHAtlas]

Can anyone help me remember how to create an email account in Outlook or
Outlook Express automatically from the user's logon information on a Windows
Server 2003/XP network, so that when the user logs on an e-mail account with
their name and e-mail address is created automatically? Does it involve
Active Directory? Or a script? ??

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Microsoft uses text files with a .prf extension and a highly structured format to provide information to OUtlook that enables Outlook to create or modify a mail profile. You can create such .prf files with the Custom Installation Wizard or Custom Maintenance Wizard tools in the Office Resource Kit. For more details, including a variety of .prf deployment methods, read the excellent white paper "Configuring Outlook Profiles by Using a PRF File" at http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?assetid=HA011403051033&QueryID=pHm7c_60I&respos=3

The page at http://www.slipstick.com/exs/olroam.htm includes information on other profile tools and resources.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[NHAtlas]

Hello. Thank you for your reply. I am reading the white paper. I have
downloaded the ORK. More later...

Nicholas Hewlett