Change Outlook Setting via GP or Script

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Davo

I have 300 users on a shared email host. Our domain name is changing. Does
anyone know how I could automate changing the POP3 settings on each of my
Outlook users without having to touch each PC? Theses PCs are spread out
geographically and I don't trust the users aptitude to change them
themselves.

I have Googled this ad nauseam to no avail. Thank you.
 
Must have been your search terms then. You can deploy a prf, mst or cmw file
for this. You can find more info and a wizard in the Office Resource Kit of
your Office version.
 
Thanks for the reply. I did see something about this. But I understood it as
only working in an Exchange environment. I may be wrong. My email server is
running FreeBSD with Sendmail. Could you give me a little push in the right
direction with a URL?

Also, these are working installs of Outlook and I only want to change the
user account name and domain in the POP3 account settings on each client. I
don't want to have to redeploy Office to make the change.

Again, thanks.

Roady said:
Must have been your search terms then. You can deploy a prf, mst or cmw
file for this. You can find more info and a wizard in the Office Resource
Kit of your Office version.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Davo said:
I have 300 users on a shared email host. Our domain name is changing. Does
anyone know how I could automate changing the POP3 settings on each of my
Outlook users without having to touch each PC? Theses PCs are spread out
geographically and I don't trust the users aptitude to change them
themselves.

I have Googled this ad nauseam to no avail. Thank you.
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Actually, a .prf file, no matter how you deploy it, cannot remove or change an existing POP3 account. Nor is there any GPO setting to do that. The only solution I'd consider implementing would be a WMI script to iterate the Windows registry until it finds the right account and then change the domain name (which will be binary, not string).

The WMI sample at http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=821 is for a completely different purpose but has most if not all the pieces necessary except the name of the registry key that holds the server names. A little quality time spent with Regedit should turn that up.

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

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


Roady said:
Must have been your search terms then. You can deploy a prf, mst or cmw file
for this. You can find more info and a wizard in the Office Resource Kit of
your Office version.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Davo said:
I have 300 users on a shared email host. Our domain name is changing. Does
anyone know how I could automate changing the POP3 settings on each of my
Outlook users without having to touch each PC? Theses PCs are spread out
geographically and I don't trust the users aptitude to change them
themselves.

I have Googled this ad nauseam to no avail. Thank you.
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