[THIN] Re: MAPI Profile creator
- From: "Katz, Benjamin" <Ben.Katz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:44:28 -0500
Malcolm,
Like below, we also had a similar situation. We have an application
that requires MAPI connections, and while Outlook 2000 is installed on
the servers, no one uses it. Additionally, we delete profiles nightly
(no roaming), so creating an outlook profile is temporary at best.=20
I found a commandline utility called createprf at
http://www.mailsoftware.co.uk/downloads.html, and created a batch script
that first executes the utility with the user's login, then launches the
application. No idea if it works with 2002/2003, but it's free, and easy
to use on-the-fly.
Ben
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Landin, Mark
Sent: April 27, 2004 12:54 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: MAPI Profile creator
> Is anyone aware of a free ware tool to do MAPI profile=3D20
> creation. I've tried the likes of Profgen.exe, newprof.exe=3D20
> and modprof.exe. These all work fine with Outlook 2000 but=3D20
> don't work with Outlook 2002 or Outlook 2003.
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> Aside form=3D20
> hiding outlook in the background and killing it after 5 mins=3D20
> when the user starts the app does anyone have any better=3D20
> ideas or and app that can configure MAPI silently.
Malcolm,
We had this EXACT SAME PROBLEM and I ran into the same issues you did!
Let me tell you what we did:
We use ScriptLogic here, and it has the ability to create MAPI profiles,
but as you said one still had to process them with Outlook 2003 before
the profile was usable. (You can also use the Office 2003 Resource Kit
to create profiles but that looked like more work than ScriptLogic in
our case.) There are a couple of other pretty cheap Outlook 2003 profile
generators, but they all suffer from the "double-click me to use me"
problem.
Like you, the problem we ran into was how to process those profiles via
Outlook without inconveniencing the users. Back in 2000 days, newprof
would do that for us. Although we ran across one product which would do
that for Outlook 2003 (Profile Generator from Autoprof
[www.autoprof.com]) it would have cost us about $50 per user for that
solution. Autoprof did, however, remove the need to run Outlook to
process the MAPI profile.
What we ended up doing involved a Citrix login script. The script tested
to see if there was a .prf file for the user that ScriptLogic had made;
if so, we started Outlook 2003 with the /importprf switch to force
Outlook to import the PRF file we had made with Scriptlogic. We also
used the /autorun and /altvba switches to tell Outlook to execute a
macro which told Outlook to close itself as soon as the profile was
imported. Basically, it was a VBA "suicide" script. It's slightly ugly,
but it works.=3D20
Hope this helps!
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