Outlook 2002 PRF

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Martin

I'm just developing the build for my company, Windows XP
Pro and Office XP.
I created a custom Outlook prf using the %username%
variable as the profile name. When opened or imported it
saves the profile as the variable name %username% instead
of the actual logged on users name. It seems that Outlook
is not recognising the variable and so takes it literally
the the profile name is %username%.
Any help is appreciated.
 
This is by design. You cannot use an environment variable to set the profile
name. Use "Default profile" or whatever you want to call it instead.
 
This is surely a step backward!!
I have just read the instructions for creating a custom
profile and this is a section from it:
To specify Exchange settings for Outlook user profiles in
the Custom Installation Wizard

In the Custom Installation Wizard, on the Outlook: Specify
Exchange Settings page, click Configure an Exchange Server
connection.
Note that if you chose New Profile on the previous page,
this configuration will apply to all Outlook users.

Use the default %UserName% variable setting for the user's
logon name.
Why does it state the above when it does not work?
 
Outlook has *always* worked this way. You can use %username% to set the
user's login name, which is what the text you quote below says, but not to
set the name of the profile. These are two different issues. There is, in
fact, no need to name the profile after the user, since the profile exists
as part of the user's unique Windows registry settings associated solely
with that user's login.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thank's for the advice, I'll hit the drawing board again.
Maybe I've been too stuck on my old profiling system for
Outlook 98 and 2000 which used newprof.exe called from a
VB script and actually saved the profile as the user logon
name. The custom prf also stated ProfileName=%username% so
I just expected it to work with outlook 2002.

Many Thank's
 
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