Creating profiles via VBscript for users running Outlook via terminal services

[Marius from Rome]

I need to automatically create profiles for users accessing Outlook via a
terminal server (with Citrix Metaframe)

The solution I am evaluating consists in creating a logon script associated
to a group policy.

The logon script:

- detects if the user is running via terminal services client
- runs newprof (a utility from Office Resource kit) to create the profile
- exits

My questions are:

- how can I detect (via VBscript) if an Outlook profile already exists for
the user, so that avoiding to override it?
- is there any smarter solution?

Regards

Marius

 

[Jason]

I need to automatically create profiles for users accessing Outlook via a
terminal server (with Citrix Metaframe)

The solution I am evaluating consists in creating a logon script associated
to a group policy.

The logon script:

- detects if the user is running via terminal services client
- runs newprof (a utility from Office Resource kit) to create the profile
- exits

My questions are:

- how can I detect (via VBscript) if an Outlook profile already exists for
the user, so that avoiding to override it?
- is there any smarter solution?

Regards

Marius

This solution is not free, but cheap
Try http://goff.nu/products/windows/profiler/overview.html
to create Outlook Exchange profiles automatically even on login