Jim,
It sounds like you want to have Office installed with a transform that
contains the generic Outlook profile information. That way, any user who
logs onto the machine and starts Outlook will have their profile
auto-generated for them (assuming their domain account name matches their
mailbox name).
So, the place to start for Office XP (and any other version) is the Office
Resource Kit
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork. More specifically, the
Outlook profile information is on
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/four/outc02.htm.
Then:
1. Please read through all of the above information and then download
install the resource kit tools from
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/appndx/appa04.htm. The CIW is part of
the core tools.
2. In the CIW specify a "New" Outlook profile
3. Enter your Exchange server name and keep the mailbox name at %username%
4. For additional accounts specify the Outlook Address Book at a minimum.
5. Save your transform
6. Uninstall Office XP on one <Test> machine.
7. Install Office XP with the transform.
8. Log in as a user and launch Outlook -- does the profile get auto-created?
If so, have that user log out and then have another user log in and try the
same thing.
Thanks,
--
Greg Mansius [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
Jim Reynolds said:
You hit the nail on the head. This is a medical center and it is possible
that one of these machines may be at a nurses station or in an ICU where
there could be in excess of a hundred people utilizing the PC. We also
create a master hard drive to clone for the purpose of mass installs as new
areas open up or for rapid reconfiguring of a corrupted PC, so having this
option available to us in an environment with 5000+ users is exceptionally
helpful to our help desk who would be responding to all of the calls to
assist the user with setting up their outlook. I am not sure however what
you mean by installing with a transform. I have no problem with
reinstalling to software if that gets us to where we need to be. Do you
have any instructions about setting up this transform? When I went into the
control panel and opened up the mail icon and went into the exchange server
settings I did try to put in %username% in the username field then copy over
the ntuser.dat file, but it did not work in the way you mentioned, probably
because it was not done in conjunction with a reinstallation. Please feel
free to contact me via email if this would be easier for communication at
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