Automatically filling in 'Your Name' for Email

[Kevin Cowans]

Hello

I am in the process of Deploying Office 2003 including Outlook.

Everything is working fine except for one thing.

The setting for 'Your Name' under 'User Information' in the Email Account
settings is not being populated when a new user starts Outlook for the first
time.

Is there any way to setup Outlook to fill in the 'Your Name' section
automatically?

I have tried to put %Fullname% in the appropriate section in the CIW without
success.

My Server is running Server 2000 Sp 4 and my Clients are running XP Pro Sp 2.

Thanks in advance

Kevin

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Are you actually establishing an environment variable named %Fullname% as
part of the user's Windows login? That would be a necessary prerequisite to
being able to use that environment variable in the .prf file that the Custom
Installation Wizard generates.

The data has to come from somewhere: You can either put it into an
environment variable and test whether Outlook process that variable in the
..prf correctly. (No guarantee, but it should work.) Or, you can write a
script that plugs the exact value into the .prf file as part of the user's
Windows login.

 

[Kevin Cowans]

Hello Sue

Thanks for the reply.

I am actually setting an Environment Variable during the user logon.

Bye for now

Kevin

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

And this is a mail account for Exchange that you're setting up?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers