User Name ask every time a user logs on

[Rudy Herpain]

I've a little config problem with Office XP.

We are ready to install 400 workstations base on the same image. We have
made a setup giving all the different settings to user when they log on
(Outlook, Desktop, Internet Explorer,...).
But since, my users are moving from location almost every day, I had to
manage to create automatically the user profile every time he logs on a
different PC (using roaming profile was not efficient because of the size of
the profile and the bandwidth available between sites)
All is working perfectly, but I still have a stupid problem with Office.
When a user start Word (per example) for the first time on every PC, a popup
asks the user to give his User Name and Initials. It is very boring due to
the fact that a user don't use the same PC and generate a new profile, he
has to answer again and again to this stupid question. If you work on only
one PC, that's not a problem, you answer one time ant that's up !

If someone have a clue to stop this popup, to link those fields to the
Adctive Directory (I don't understand why it is not directly done via
policies) or to respond automatically to this popup, I would greatly
appreciate any tips.

Thanks by advance

Rudy.Herpaiñ@gdbi.com

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Rudy,

For each computer that a user is on the first use will
require registry entries to be created for that user.
See if the information from the Office XP Resource Kit helps:
http://microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/one/depe02.htm

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I've a little config problem with Office XP.

We are ready to install 400 workstations base on the same image. We have
made a setup giving all the different settings to user when they log on
(Outlook, Desktop, Internet Explorer,...).
But since, my users are moving from location almost every day, I had to
manage to create automatically the user profile every time he logs on a
different PC (using roaming profile was not efficient because of the size of
the profile and the bandwidth available between sites)
All is working perfectly, but I still have a stupid problem with Office.
When a user start Word (per example) for the first time on every PC, a popup
asks the user to give his User Name and Initials. It is very boring due to
the fact that a user don't use the same PC and generate a new profile, he
has to answer again and again to this stupid question. If you work on only
one PC, that's not a problem, you answer one time ant that's up !

If someone have a clue to stop this popup, to link those fields to the
Adctive Directory (I don't understand why it is not directly done via
policies) or to respond automatically to this popup, I would greatly
appreciate any tips.

Thanks by advance >>
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Hope that helps,

Bob Buckland ? MS Office Products family MVP
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