Changing the Username

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1


========
All. Please accept my apologies for the lenght of this post.

A couple of years ago at work we created desktop images which had Office
XP on them. The problem with it is that the username being used is
incorrect for the logged-on user. It comes up as the username of the
person who created the Office install. When someone logs on for the
first time and runs Office each application is configured by Windows
Installer but the username on the Splash screen and Help/About isn't
changed to their username. This means that each document created in Word
for example, has the wrong username and using Review shows the wrong name.

In an attempt to resolve this issue I reimaged a machine today and
uninstalled Office before reinstalling it from AD (using an Admin
Install with an MST). The username didn't change so that approach is out.

I *think* the username is the one stored in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo which
is stored as binary.

If that is they key we need to change, is it possible to just delete it
from each machine, and will Office recreate it with the correct key when
reinstalled from AD?

If not, how can we change this username without having to reimage 2000+
machines?


thanks for any help >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1


========
All. Please accept my apologies for the lenght of this post.

A couple of years ago at work we created desktop images which had Office
XP on them. The problem with it is that the username being used is
incorrect for the logged-on user. It comes up as the username of the
person who created the Office install. When someone logs on for the
first time and runs Office each application is configured by Windows
Installer but the username on the Splash screen and Help/About isn't
changed to their username. This means that each document created in Word
for example, has the wrong username and using Review shows the wrong name.

In an attempt to resolve this issue I reimaged a machine today and
uninstalled Office before reinstalling it from AD (using an Admin
Install with an MST). The username didn't change so that approach is out.

I *think* the username is the one stored in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo which
is stored as binary.

If that is they key we need to change, is it possible to just delete it
from each machine, and will Office recreate it with the correct key when
reinstalled from AD?

If not, how can we change this username without having to reimage 2000+
machines?


thanks for any help >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1


========
All. Please accept my apologies for the lenght of this post.

A couple of years ago at work we created desktop images which had Office
XP on them. The problem with it is that the username being used is
incorrect for the logged-on user. It comes up as the username of the
person who created the Office install. When someone logs on for the
first time and runs Office each application is configured by Windows
Installer but the username on the Splash screen and Help/About isn't
changed to their username. This means that each document created in Word
for example, has the wrong username and using Review shows the wrong name.

In an attempt to resolve this issue I reimaged a machine today and
uninstalled Office before reinstalling it from AD (using an Admin
Install with an MST). The username didn't change so that approach is out.

I *think* the username is the one stored in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo which
is stored as binary.

If that is they key we need to change, is it possible to just delete it
from each machine, and will Office recreate it with the correct key when
reinstalled from AD?

If not, how can we change this username without having to reimage 2000+
machines?


thanks for any help >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1


========
All. Please accept my apologies for the lenght of this post.

A couple of years ago at work we created desktop images which had Office
XP on them. The problem with it is that the username being used is
incorrect for the logged-on user. It comes up as the username of the
person who created the Office install. When someone logs on for the
first time and runs Office each application is configured by Windows
Installer but the username on the Splash screen and Help/About isn't
changed to their username. This means that each document created in Word
for example, has the wrong username and using Review shows the wrong name.

In an attempt to resolve this issue I reimaged a machine today and
uninstalled Office before reinstalling it from AD (using an Admin
Install with an MST). The username didn't change so that approach is out.

I *think* the username is the one stored in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo which
is stored as binary.

If that is they key we need to change, is it possible to just delete it
from each machine, and will Office recreate it with the correct key when
reinstalled from AD?

If not, how can we change this username without having to reimage 2000+
machines?


thanks for any help >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1


========
All. Please accept my apologies for the lenght of this post.

A couple of years ago at work we created desktop images which had Office
XP on them. The problem with it is that the username being used is
incorrect for the logged-on user. It comes up as the username of the
person who created the Office install. When someone logs on for the
first time and runs Office each application is configured by Windows
Installer but the username on the Splash screen and Help/About isn't
changed to their username. This means that each document created in Word
for example, has the wrong username and using Review shows the wrong name.

In an attempt to resolve this issue I reimaged a machine today and
uninstalled Office before reinstalling it from AD (using an Admin
Install with an MST). The username didn't change so that approach is out.

I *think* the username is the one stored in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo which
is stored as binary.

If that is they key we need to change, is it possible to just delete it
from each machine, and will Office recreate it with the correct key when
reinstalled from AD?

If not, how can we change this username without having to reimage 2000+
machines?


thanks for any help >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1


========
All. Please accept my apologies for the lenght of this post.

A couple of years ago at work we created desktop images which had Office
XP on them. The problem with it is that the username being used is
incorrect for the logged-on user. It comes up as the username of the
person who created the Office install. When someone logs on for the
first time and runs Office each application is configured by Windows
Installer but the username on the Splash screen and Help/About isn't
changed to their username. This means that each document created in Word
for example, has the wrong username and using Review shows the wrong name.

In an attempt to resolve this issue I reimaged a machine today and
uninstalled Office before reinstalling it from AD (using an Admin
Install with an MST). The username didn't change so that approach is out.

I *think* the username is the one stored in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo which
is stored as binary.

If that is they key we need to change, is it possible to just delete it
from each machine, and will Office recreate it with the correct key when
reinstalled from AD?

If not, how can we change this username without having to reimage 2000+
machines?


thanks for any help >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1


========
All. Please accept my apologies for the lenght of this post.

A couple of years ago at work we created desktop images which had Office
XP on them. The problem with it is that the username being used is
incorrect for the logged-on user. It comes up as the username of the
person who created the Office install. When someone logs on for the
first time and runs Office each application is configured by Windows
Installer but the username on the Splash screen and Help/About isn't
changed to their username. This means that each document created in Word
for example, has the wrong username and using Review shows the wrong name.

In an attempt to resolve this issue I reimaged a machine today and
uninstalled Office before reinstalling it from AD (using an Admin
Install with an MST). The username didn't change so that approach is out.

I *think* the username is the one stored in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo which
is stored as binary.

If that is they key we need to change, is it possible to just delete it
from each machine, and will Office recreate it with the correct key when
reinstalled from AD?

If not, how can we change this username without having to reimage 2000+
machines?


thanks for any help >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1


========
All. Please accept my apologies for the lenght of this post.

A couple of years ago at work we created desktop images which had Office
XP on them. The problem with it is that the username being used is
incorrect for the logged-on user. It comes up as the username of the
person who created the Office install. When someone logs on for the
first time and runs Office each application is configured by Windows
Installer but the username on the Splash screen and Help/About isn't
changed to their username. This means that each document created in Word
for example, has the wrong username and using Review shows the wrong name.

In an attempt to resolve this issue I reimaged a machine today and
uninstalled Office before reinstalling it from AD (using an Admin
Install with an MST). The username didn't change so that approach is out.

I *think* the username is the one stored in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo which
is stored as binary.

If that is they key we need to change, is it possible to just delete it
from each machine, and will Office recreate it with the correct key when
reinstalled from AD?

If not, how can we change this username without having to reimage 2000+
machines?


thanks for any help >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[อะไรà¸à¹‡à¸•à¸²à¸¡]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1

Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again

 

[อะไรà¸à¹‡à¸•à¸²à¸¡]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1

Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again

 

[อะไรà¸à¹‡à¸•à¸²à¸¡]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1

Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again

 

[อะไรà¸à¹‡à¸•à¸²à¸¡]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1

Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again

 

[อะไรà¸à¹‡à¸•à¸²à¸¡]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1

Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again

 

[อะไรà¸à¹‡à¸•à¸²à¸¡]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1

Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again

 

[อะไรà¸à¹‡à¸•à¸²à¸¡]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1

Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again

 

[อะไรà¸à¹‡à¸•à¸²à¸¡]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1

Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again

 

[อะไรà¸à¹‡à¸•à¸²à¸¡]

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280546&FR=1

Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi ?????????,
You can't check the date on a registry key but
you can place a dummy file or registry entry that
could be checked by the script (i.e. if == exist
don't run the script).

=======
Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi ?????????,
You can't check the date on a registry key but
you can place a dummy file or registry entry that
could be checked by the script (i.e. if == exist
don't run the script).

=======
Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi ?????????,
You can't check the date on a registry key but
you can place a dummy file or registry entry that
could be checked by the script (i.e. if == exist
don't run the script).

=======
Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx