Office 2003 outlook profile problem

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I've created a network share installation of office 2003. I configured the
installation and my outlook profile using the CIW.

I configured the outlook profile with the exchange server name 'DDDDDDD' and
the installation of outlook worked fine. When a user logged on to the
computer they did not have to created their outlook profile, no matter how
many users logged on.

Our exchange server name changed because of a new install of exchange 203 to
'CCCCC'. I removed the original install of office from the desktop using
add and remove, changed the server name in the outlook profile within the
CIW getting it to update the local user profile with the new server name,
reinstalled office but when a new use logs onto the desktop and tries to
open outlook, outlook prompts for the new server name and displays the old
server name

Does anyone know how to solve this problem so outlook does not prompt for
the old server??

wayne

 

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I've created a network share installation of office 2003. I configured
the installation and my outlook profile using the CIW.

I configured the outlook profile with the exchange server name 'DDDDDDD'
and the installation of outlook worked fine. When a user logged on to the
computer they did not have to created their outlook profile, no matter how
many users logged on.

Our exchange server name changed because of a new install of exchange 203
to 'CCCCC'. I removed the original install of office from the desktop
using add and remove, changed the server name in the outlook profile
within the CIW getting it to update the local user profile with the new
server name, reinstalled office but when a new use logs onto the desktop
and tries to open outlook, outlook prompts for the new server name and
displays the old server name

Does anyone know how to solve this problem so outlook does not prompt for
the old server??

wayne

I had the same issue. Use the CIW to defing the changes you want to the
Outlook Profile and then Export it to a PRF file - mine sits on the
installation source network drive. When you get to the Add/Remove registry
entries in the CIW add root = HKEY_CURRENT_USER, key =
Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup, data type = REG_SZ, value =
ImportPRF, value data = \\server\share\outlook.prf (change this to the
location of your saved PRF file). Save the changes to your MST file and then
test the setup using this transform.

HTH
Stace.

 

[Stace]

I've created a network share installation of office 2003. I configured
the installation and my outlook profile using the CIW.

I configured the outlook profile with the exchange server name 'DDDDDDD'
and the installation of outlook worked fine. When a user logged on to the
computer they did not have to created their outlook profile, no matter how
many users logged on.

Our exchange server name changed because of a new install of exchange 203
to 'CCCCC'. I removed the original install of office from the desktop
using add and remove, changed the server name in the outlook profile
within the CIW getting it to update the local user profile with the new
server name, reinstalled office but when a new use logs onto the desktop
and tries to open outlook, outlook prompts for the new server name and
displays the old server name

Does anyone know how to solve this problem so outlook does not prompt for
the old server??

wayne

I had the same issue. Use the CIW to defing the changes you want to the
Outlook Profile and then Export it to a PRF file - mine sits on the
installation source network drive. When you get to the Add/Remove registry
entries in the CIW add root = HKEY_CURRENT_USER, key =
Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup, data type = REG_SZ, value =
ImportPRF, value data = \\server\share\outlook.prf (change this to the
location of your saved PRF file). Save the changes to your MST file and then
test the setup using this transform.

HTH
Stace.

 

[Stace]

I had the same issue. Use the CIW to defing the changes you want to the
Outlook Profile and then Export it to a PRF file - mine sits on the
installation source network drive. When you get to the Add/Remove registry
entries in the CIW add root = HKEY_CURRENT_USER, key =
Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup, data type = REG_SZ, value =
ImportPRF, value data = \\server\share\outlook.prf (change this to the
location of your saved PRF file). Save the changes to your MST file and
then test the setup using this transform.

HTH
Stace.

Further testing has revealed that this only works for the user who runs the
actual installation. I have managed to work around this now by using the
Custom Maintenance Wizard to define changes to the Office installation and
then running this on the target PC using MaintWiz.exe from the ORK Tools.

In the CMW utility I selected Modify profile, left the user name as
%UserName%, entered the new mail server name and ticked 'Overwrite existing
Exchange server settings'. I saved the resulting .CMW file in my Office 2003
network installation folder.

I then copied MaintWiz.exe to the Office 2003 network installation folder
and created a small exe program that simply issues the command:
\\server\share\maintwiz.exe /c \\server\share\cmwfile.cmw

There is no need to reinstall Office - just run this command to alter the
existing install.

Stace.

 

[Stace]

I had the same issue. Use the CIW to defing the changes you want to the
Outlook Profile and then Export it to a PRF file - mine sits on the
installation source network drive. When you get to the Add/Remove registry
entries in the CIW add root = HKEY_CURRENT_USER, key =
Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup, data type = REG_SZ, value =
ImportPRF, value data = \\server\share\outlook.prf (change this to the
location of your saved PRF file). Save the changes to your MST file and
then test the setup using this transform.

HTH
Stace.

Further testing has revealed that this only works for the user who runs the
actual installation. I have managed to work around this now by using the
Custom Maintenance Wizard to define changes to the Office installation and
then running this on the target PC using MaintWiz.exe from the ORK Tools.

In the CMW utility I selected Modify profile, left the user name as
%UserName%, entered the new mail server name and ticked 'Overwrite existing
Exchange server settings'. I saved the resulting .CMW file in my Office 2003
network installation folder.

I then copied MaintWiz.exe to the Office 2003 network installation folder
and created a small exe program that simply issues the command:
\\server\share\maintwiz.exe /c \\server\share\cmwfile.cmw

There is no need to reinstall Office - just run this command to alter the
existing install.

Stace.