Custom Maintenance Wizard and OEM Installations of Office 2003

[Danno]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a .cmw file with an OEM installation of Office
2003. Actually, the OS was reinstalled and the Office 2003 disc was
used to reinstall Office. The Office 2003 install disc contains some
..msi's and a bunch of .cab files.

I'm able to create the .cmw file successfully using the CMW and
referencing PRO11N.msi. (I copied the installation CD to a network
share using robocopy)


However, when I attempt to apply the file using the command
\\<network_share>\maintwiz.exe /c \\<network_share>\testprofa.cmw /qb


I get the following message: "this version of microsoft office 2003
does not support office custom maintenance wizard files"


Any thoughts? I am deploying Exchange Server 2003 and need to modify
~80 profiles currently setup with personal folders pulling email from a
POP3 account.

One other thing I need to do is modify some of the settings of the
existing POP3 account, specifically the Incoming/Outgoing server values
if anyone knows. Can this be done with the Custom Maintenance Wizard?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You don't need the CMW to deploy mail profile changes. You can use a ..prf file and the ImportPRF registry value, as documented in 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

Microsoft, however, doesn't provide any way to change the settings for existing POP accounts in the same fashion.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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