Outlook 2003 + Exchange 2003 Automated Profile Installation

[Southpaw316]

Hey All,

I'm new to news groups and pretty much to exchange as well.

My question is this:
I want to create a vbscript that runs when a user logs into their
computer that checks the registry for an Outlook profile. If it
doesn't have one (an outlook profile), then it creates one from the
..PRF file that I've created. If it does have one, then it does
nothing. I've got the .PRF working but it runs regardless every time.
I've also created a vbscript to call the default profile but haven't
been able to figure out the rest. The registry key that I'm looking at
is: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\DefaultProfile".
I know it can be done, I just need some help figuring it out. I'm
also pretty new with vbscripts and not much of a programmer myself so
any help would be great! Thanks!

John

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

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 will tell you about the ImportPRF registry value and others you need to set if you want OUtlook to create the new profile the next time it runs.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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