Pfr File - Mailboxname - Hosting environment

[Kjetil]

Is there a way to configure the mailboxname attribute? other than %username%?
I have a scenario where the windows login name and outlook login name are
different. This is going to be used in a hosting enviroment(outlook rpc over
https) . I would like to make a prf file that customers can download and
install on their client machines. But I am having trouble with the
mailboxname attribute in the prf file.
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to get around this? Somehow put the
outlook login name into the prf mailboxname attribute.

Regards
K

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You need to put the appropriate value in that attribute in the PRF file. Exactly how you do it will depend on where the information comes from and the programming resources on your end.

Assuming you have the customer information in a database, you could for example have code behind a customer support page on your hosting site that generates the PRF file for each customer by looking up their account in the database and replacing the %username% token in a standard PRF file with the specific user name before presenting that file to the customer to download.

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

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

 

[Kjetil]

ok. Then it is no easy way.
I will investigate how to automate the procedure with some programming.
Thanks for quick replay

K

 

[jfmartel]

Hello, did you found something?

Right now I'm trying a couple things. The best I've found so far is to left
the username field blank. That way Outlook ask for the username to setup.
Then Outlook says that profile isnt configured. Just restart it and Outlook
is ok. But, the strange thing is that the Adress Book doesnt show up, like it
use to be.

Anyway, if you have found something please let me know. I guess the
"easiest" way would be to define a new attribute in the AD, and then a
environment variable with it, then use it for the PRF.