Outlook Deployment using GPO / MST

[bijs]

Hi all,

I am also facing exactly same problem,only user with which I installed
office 2003,Outlook works.
In our network people keep moving form one coputer to another with their
mendatory profile.
This is for your information,I have created new PRF file using custom
installation wizard.
Whenever new user logs on to the system(windows XP ,SP2),profile gets
copied to temp folder under c drive as included in log-on script.
I would like to know ,How to import prf file using command line option or
making changes to registry??
Your help will be highly appreciated.
Thanking you in advance

From my experience, just the "First-Run" value under
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup. I only make this change
when my home grown profile generator detects that no outlook profile exists
for the user logging on. So in this case, my answer is after Office is
installed and there needs to be some methodology on when to do so that it
doesn't introduce some other unexpected behavior.


Just so you know, the reg file my script imports looks something like...

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup]
"ImportPRF"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Application
Data\\SITE_NAME\\Profgen\\TEMPLATE.prf"
"First-Run"=-


The reason I went this route is that if the help desk informs the user to
delete their existing Outlook profile in order to fix minor corruption, they
only have to ask the user to reboot to get the Outlook profile rebuilt.

I know there is 2 first run keys: FirstRun and First-Run do I delete both
of
those first, then add the importPRF key? Also this is very important to
me,
I am rolling out Office 2003 in my login script, so when should I perform
the
removal and additions of the registry keys? I cannot do it in the CIW
because it is not working, so I am going to have to do it in my login
script.
Do i remove those keys after office is installed or before office is
installed? Thanks.

it is quite likely if you situation you are seeing is where you logon
with a
brand new user account that has never logged onto the workstation before
and
the first-run registry key exists before starting Outlook the first time.
in this case, your script has to delete the first-run registry value and
create the importprf value.


message First off thanks for the reply. I know we do not have a default profile
getting applied from the DOMAIN... i.e gpo, but it is possibly that
maybe
when an image was created there was a default mail profile created with
a
specific user. Is that why I am having this problem? So when you say
have
my login script create the necessary keys, which keys? What would my
process/ order be in creating those keys? Any help would be
appreciated.
-Keith

:

Does your site use a "default" profile for everyone? (e.g. either
have a
default user profile on a domain controller(s) or when creating an
image
copy some test user back to the default user folder?) If yes, you
might
have to resort to using a login script that creates the necessary
registry
keys.

in
message Affter the second person logs in there is not importprf entry in the
registry, there is the FirstRun, First-Run entries however.

Outlook Build numerb is: 11.6568.6568 (SP2)

:

Please turn off the caps lock key, start at the beginning, and
provide
us
with some basic information:

1) Outlook build number from Help | About.

2) After the second person logs in, in their HKCU hive of the
registry,
do you see the ImportPRF, FirstRun, and First-Run values described
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?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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



"Keith Schlottman" <[email protected]>
wrote
in
message IS THERE A SOLUTION TO THIS? I AM HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM, SAME
VERSION/SERVICE PACK EVERYTHING. I RUN IT MANUALLY THE PROFIEL IS
IMPORTED,
IF NOT IT ONLY WORKS ON THE FIRST PERSON OR THE PERSON WHO IS
LOGGED
IN
AT
THE TIME OF INSTALL. HELPP!!!!

:

The PRF file doesnt copy that I see... I searched all the
subfolders
of prog
files\ms office.


message
Is the PRF file actually getting copied to the machine during
the
installation process? It should be under Program Files\Microsoft
Office or
one of its subfolders. (I'm not at a machine where I can check.)




Logged in with local admin rights and it still does not apply.
The
PRF
file
installs fine if done manually as does the deployment of the
MST.
It just
doesnt append the exchange mail box to the current profile....
until
I add
the PRF manually.


message
I've seen other issues with certain PRF settings not being
applied
if the
user doesn't have admin rights. Can you test against a machine
where
the
user does have admin rights?


The GPO with the MST is applied but the profile isnt. the
user
does not
have Admin rights on the computer - does that make a
difference?

The adding of the PRF file from command line works fine....
I
next
looked
at my MST file which seems also to be fine... Here it is.
The
fact
that
path is not a UNC path isnt the problem is it? I made all
the
fields in
the wizard be UNC path but thats not how they show here.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Enforce Validation Flags: True
Base package: C:\o2k3\OUTLS11.MSI
ProductCode: {90E00409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9};
ProductVersion:
11.0.5614.0; UpgradeCode:
{00E00000-6000-11D3-8CFE-0050048383C9}

Transform: C:\o2k3\domainexch.mst
Expected values - ProductCode:
{90E00409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9};
ProductVersion: 11.0.5614.0; UpgradeCode:
{00E00000-6000-11D3-8CFE-0050048383C9}
Validate Major Version
Validate Version is Equal
Validate UpgradeCode
Ignore Error of AddExistingRow
Ignore Error of DeleteNonExistingRow
Ignore Error of AddExistingTable
Ignore Error of UpdateNonExistingRow


CREATED - OCW_Opt_Props DisplayName (s128*) Value (S0)
ActualName
(s128)
Type (I2)
+ ALLUSERS 2 ALLUSERS 8
+ ARPCOMMENTS ARPCOMMENTS 12
+ ARPCONTACT ARPCONTACT 12
+ ARPHELPLINK http://www.microsoft.com/support ARPHELPLINK
12
+ ARPHELPTELEPHONE ARPHELPTELEPHONE 12
+ ARPNOMODIFY ARPNOMODIFY 14
+ ARPNOREMOVE ARPNOREMOVE 15
+ ARPNOREPAIR ARPNOREPAIR 16
+ COMPLETEINSTALLDESCRIPTION <Default>
COMPLETEINSTALLDESCRIPTION 11
+ CUSTOMINSTALLDESCRIPTION <Default>
CUSTOMINSTALLDESCRIPTION
11
+ DEFAULTREMOVECHOICEDESCRIPTION <Default>
DEFAULTREMOVECHOICEDESCRIPTION 11
+ DISABLESCMIGRATION DISABLESCMIGRATION 17
+ NOFEATURESTATEMIGRATION NOFEATURESTATEMIGRATION 18
+ RUNFROMSOURCEINSTALLDESCRIPTION <Default>
RUNFROMSOURCEINSTALLDESCRIPTION 11
+ RUNFROMSOURCETEXT <Default> RUNFROMSOURCETEXT 11
+ StrContactInfo StrContactInfo 12
+ TRANSFORMSSECURE TRANSFORMSSECURE 19
+ TYPICALINSTALLDESCRIPTION <Default>
TYPICALINSTALLDESCRIPTION
11
+ TYPICALINSTALLTEXT <Default> TYPICALINSTALLTEXT 11
+ TYPICALUPGRADEDESCRIPTION <Default>
TYPICALUPGRADEDESCRIPTION
11
+ TYPICALUPGRADETEXT <Default> TYPICALUPGRADETEXT 11

CREATED - OCW_Strings Name (s64*) Value (s128)
+ CustomizeOutlook 1
+ CustPrfName \\domainexch\o2k3\domainexch.PRF
+ Msi_ProductVersion 11.0.5614.0
+ Msi_UpgradeCode {00E00000-6000-11D3-8CFE-0050048383C9}
+ OCW_Added_Outlook_File_1
[INSTALLLOCATION]\domainexch.PRF

ALTERED - Feature Feature Feature_Parent Title Description
Display
Level
Directory_ Attributes Lock (I2) OCW_DisableRFS (I2)
OCW_DisableJIT
(I2)

DATA CHANGE - _Validation Table Column Nullable MinValue
MaxValue
KeyTable
KeyColumn Category Set Description
+ Feature Lock Y 0 1 Lock
+ Feature OCW_DisableJIT Y 0 1 OCW_DisableJIT
+ Feature OCW_DisableRFS Y 0 1 OCW_DisableRFS
+ OCW_Opt_Props ActualName N Identifier Actual Name
of
OCW_Opt_Props property-like record
+ OCW_Opt_Props DisplayName N Identifier Display Name
of
OCW_Opt_Props property-like record
+ OCW_Opt_Props Type N Integer Type of OCW_Opt_Props
property-like
record
+ OCW_Opt_Props Value Y Text Value of OCW_Opt_Props
property-like
record
+ OCW_Strings Name N Identifier Name of OCW_Strings
property-like
record
+ OCW_Strings Value N Text Value of OCW_Strings
property-like
record

DATA CHANGE - ActionText Action Description Template
+ OCW_Clean_Temp_Folder Removing temporary working files
+ OCW_Install_Outlook_Added_Files Writing custom default
settings
+ OCW_Verify_Outlook_Added_Files Verifying custom default
settings

DATA CHANGE - Binary Name Data