[THIN] Re: Office 2003 Suppress User name popup

Hi

Very good point.  I neglected the username setting.  Im assuming you cannot set 
%username% in the ADM file..

Im willing to try a VB file.  I found this on the Internet but it doesn't work 
as I get error "Registry Editing has been disabled by your administrator".  We 
do disable registry editing via a GPO so I need code that will not interfere 
with this..

Regards
Angela

Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 2003 Suppress User name popup
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:38:54 +1100
From: Jeremy.Saunders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



















Hi Angela,

 

I would only ever do this via a cmd, VBScript, or Kix script.
Taking care of the Company value is not a problem, but you want to individually
set the UserName to the actual user of that session. If you do it through an
ADM template, all users will have the same name, or you need to change the
REG_SZ value to a REG_EXPAND_SZ and use %USERNAME%. Then you need to deal with
the UserInitials. So how would you derive that? Typically it’s the first
letter of the username. You may also be able to change that to a REG_EXPAND_SZ
and use %USERNAME:~0,+1%, which will return the first letter of the username.

 

All this is very simple to achieve with a script to ensure that
all users have personalised settings. You could also use the new GP Preferences
too.

 

Not a lot of help because I don’t have a script you are
looking for, but hope that helps you down the right path.

 

Cheers,

Jeremy.

 





From:
thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Angela
Smith

Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:13 PM

To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 2003 Suppress User name popup





 

Hi



Thanks for the email.  I would really like to implement this via an ADM
file in Group Policy if at all possible.



Thanks

Ang







From: cwegener@xxxxxxxxxxx

To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 2003 Suppress User name popup

Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:41:40 +1100



Hi Angela,

 

You would need to pre-populate the 
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo
Key with the UserName, UserInitials, Company values.

You could either, create a login script that does this, create
and ADM file for the keys, include the values in your default user profile, or
you could enter this information at the Office installation time, when Terminal
Services redirects HKCU changes to the shadow area (though I won’t
recommend this last option)

 

I am sure, someone with a little more time here, will be able to
provide you with some script snippets to include in a login script.

 

Cheers,

Christoph

 

 





From:
thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Angela
Smith

Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:28 PM

To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: [THIN] Office 2003 Suppress User name popup





 

Hi



I need to find a way to remove the MS Office User Name popup box that pops up
on first use when using office 2003.  We do not use roaming profiles so
our users get this popup on first use each day.  Has anyone suppressed
this popup via Group Policy?.  Has anyone created an ADM file to suppress
this?



Thanks

Ang







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