Outlook in Image

[Joanne Finger]

I already have an MST and PRF, as they were created when we wanted to
deploy Office via GPO. I know they work via GPO.
I have installed Office onto my WinXP image from the place I store the
setup.exe, MST file etc.
I'm obviously doing something wrong, cos when i run Outlook it asks for
info that should have been set in the CIW & PRF.

 

[Joanne Finger]

I already have an MST and PRF, as they were created when we wanted to
deploy Office via GPO. I know they work via GPO.
I have installed Office onto my WinXP image from the place I store the
setup.exe, MST file etc.
I'm obviously doing something wrong, cos when i run Outlook it asks for
info that should have been set in the CIW & PRF.

 

[Joanne Finger]

I already have an MST and PRF, as they were created when we wanted to
deploy Office via GPO. I know they work via GPO.
I have installed Office onto my WinXP image from the place I store the
setup.exe, MST file etc.
I'm obviously doing something wrong, cos when i run Outlook it asks for
info that should have been set in the CIW & PRF.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

The only time I've seen this behavior in testing is where a user has an
outlook profile, deletes it, and then starts Outlook. At this point Outlook
knows one existed at this point and doesn't use the PRF. Sound familiar to
your setup or am I just way off base?

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

The only time I've seen this behavior in testing is where a user has an
outlook profile, deletes it, and then starts Outlook. At this point Outlook
knows one existed at this point and doesn't use the PRF. Sound familiar to
your setup or am I just way off base?

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

The only time I've seen this behavior in testing is where a user has an
outlook profile, deletes it, and then starts Outlook. At this point Outlook
knows one existed at this point and doesn't use the PRF. Sound familiar to
your setup or am I just way off base?

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

The only time I've seen this behavior in testing is where a user has an
outlook profile, deletes it, and then starts Outlook. At this point Outlook
knows one existed at this point and doesn't use the PRF. Sound familiar to
your setup or am I just way off base?

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

The only time I've seen this behavior in testing is where a user has an
outlook profile, deletes it, and then starts Outlook. At this point Outlook
knows one existed at this point and doesn't use the PRF. Sound familiar to
your setup or am I just way off base?

 

[Joanne Finger]

Well, I think the problem here is me! I'm misunderstanding something.
When I install office on my clean machine, I am installing from the folder
on a network share where the mst, prf file etc exist. The same loaction that
the GPO links to for installing office.
(I have tried running setup.exe with TRANSFORMS= command.)
At the point of install, the PC is not joined to our domain as it's only a
non-sysprep version of the image I want. It's in a test environment, but on
our network.

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. You understand, I want the customised
Office as part of the image, so when I image PC's the settings are all in
place? Outlook just opens, already configured for the user.

Sorry if i'm not being clear enough.

Jo

 

[Joanne Finger]

Well, I think the problem here is me! I'm misunderstanding something.
When I install office on my clean machine, I am installing from the folder
on a network share where the mst, prf file etc exist. The same loaction that
the GPO links to for installing office.
(I have tried running setup.exe with TRANSFORMS= command.)
At the point of install, the PC is not joined to our domain as it's only a
non-sysprep version of the image I want. It's in a test environment, but on
our network.

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. You understand, I want the customised
Office as part of the image, so when I image PC's the settings are all in
place? Outlook just opens, already configured for the user.

Sorry if i'm not being clear enough.

Jo

 

[Joanne Finger]

Well, I think the problem here is me! I'm misunderstanding something.
When I install office on my clean machine, I am installing from the folder
on a network share where the mst, prf file etc exist. The same loaction that
the GPO links to for installing office.
(I have tried running setup.exe with TRANSFORMS= command.)
At the point of install, the PC is not joined to our domain as it's only a
non-sysprep version of the image I want. It's in a test environment, but on
our network.

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. You understand, I want the customised
Office as part of the image, so when I image PC's the settings are all in
place? Outlook just opens, already configured for the user.

Sorry if i'm not being clear enough.

Jo

 

[Joanne Finger]

Well, I think the problem here is me! I'm misunderstanding something.
When I install office on my clean machine, I am installing from the folder
on a network share where the mst, prf file etc exist. The same loaction that
the GPO links to for installing office.
(I have tried running setup.exe with TRANSFORMS= command.)
At the point of install, the PC is not joined to our domain as it's only a
non-sysprep version of the image I want. It's in a test environment, but on
our network.

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. You understand, I want the customised
Office as part of the image, so when I image PC's the settings are all in
place? Outlook just opens, already configured for the user.

Sorry if i'm not being clear enough.

Jo

 

[Joanne Finger]

Well, I think the problem here is me! I'm misunderstanding something.
When I install office on my clean machine, I am installing from the folder
on a network share where the mst, prf file etc exist. The same loaction that
the GPO links to for installing office.
(I have tried running setup.exe with TRANSFORMS= command.)
At the point of install, the PC is not joined to our domain as it's only a
non-sysprep version of the image I want. It's in a test environment, but on
our network.

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. You understand, I want the customised
Office as part of the image, so when I image PC's the settings are all in
place? Outlook just opens, already configured for the user.

Sorry if i'm not being clear enough.

Jo

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

You are doing a great job in explaining things.

Is the custom11.prf file being created on your test machine? (I believe it
will be created in the same location Office/Outlook gets installed into)


The other thing I would like you to check is to see if the registry value
ImportPRF being created. I believe it gets created under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup

While you are in this location, please check to see if there is a
First-Run/FirstRun value.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

You are doing a great job in explaining things.

Is the custom11.prf file being created on your test machine? (I believe it
will be created in the same location Office/Outlook gets installed into)


The other thing I would like you to check is to see if the registry value
ImportPRF being created. I believe it gets created under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup

While you are in this location, please check to see if there is a
First-Run/FirstRun value.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

You are doing a great job in explaining things.

Is the custom11.prf file being created on your test machine? (I believe it
will be created in the same location Office/Outlook gets installed into)


The other thing I would like you to check is to see if the registry value
ImportPRF being created. I believe it gets created under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup

While you are in this location, please check to see if there is a
First-Run/FirstRun value.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

You are doing a great job in explaining things.

Is the custom11.prf file being created on your test machine? (I believe it
will be created in the same location Office/Outlook gets installed into)


The other thing I would like you to check is to see if the registry value
ImportPRF being created. I believe it gets created under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup

While you are in this location, please check to see if there is a
First-Run/FirstRun value.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

You are doing a great job in explaining things.

Is the custom11.prf file being created on your test machine? (I believe it
will be created in the same location Office/Outlook gets installed into)


The other thing I would like you to check is to see if the registry value
ImportPRF being created. I believe it gets created under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup

While you are in this location, please check to see if there is a
First-Run/FirstRun value.