Profile generation and logon

[verukins]

Hi,
I am currently at a site where there are a largish number of
non-network connected PC's (Thye connect via dial up intermittently....
- i know, i nearly fell over too!)

anyhoo - the SOE users auto profile creation for all network connected
PC's, but for PC's at dial-up sites, only one user profile is used....

With outlook XP, a ancient script is used, which creates a profile for
them based on a username entry and then populates the domain\username
for the outlook logon prompt.

With outlook 2003, this no longer works... or is flaky... setting the
username domain in the regkeys....
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\UserName &
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\LogonDomain

are used in the XP script - and seem to work on some machine with 2003,
but not on the majority....

I have been searching for ways around this - and have been unable to
find much information on the outlook.application.logon method. If
anyone has any ideas about how i can scriptually force pre-populated
authentication with a specific profile it would be great.

thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Those keys don't work with Outlook 2003. What you could do is have a script populate the user name value in a PRF file that has all the other settings needed to create the mail profile. Create the base .prf files with the Custom Installation Wizard or Custom Maintenance Wizard tools in the Office Resource Kit. For more details, including a variety of ..prf deployment methods, read 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

The page at http://www.slipstick.com/exs/olroam.htm includes information on other profile tools and resources.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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