Re: Connecting mailboxes for roving users - si- milar usernames
- From: "JD" <jgd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:21:22 -0600
OK, anyone who's interested. Here's the solution I've finally found to
this problem of profgen trying to map a user account 'abc' to a long list
of mailboxes which all contain the string 'abc':
In the Outlook.prf file which you feed to Profgen, change the line
Mailbox=%USERNAME% to Mailbox==%USERNAME%. It's that easy! I can't
believe Microsoft don't document this anywhere!
> I recommend against ScriptLogic. I tried it out and all it did was screw up
> the registry on the clients. Besides, all it is is a pretty front end to
> Kixtart with some (good, if they work) predefined scripts.
>
> With a little bit of playing around, you could do what you need using
> Kixtart.
>
> Kixtart is a free and powerful scripting tool from Microsoft. It's included
> on the WinNT Resource Kit.
>
> Regards.
> Andrea
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JD [mailto:jgd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 17 May 2002 7:30 AM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] Re: Connecting mailboxes for roving users - similar
> usernames
>
>
> http://www.MSExchange.org/
>
>
> Thanks, but
> - it's too expensive for us (we're only a school)
> - are you sure it gets round my problem? I've had a look at the website and
> scriptlogic looks like it just generates an Outloook.prf file which will
> give the same problem - I've e-mailed them about this to check But thankyou
> for your help Anyone any other possible ideas?
>
> > We found an excellent tool which allows users to get
> > their email wherever they log in. It's called
> > Scriptlogic and has lots of other very useful
> > features. It's not free, but it's well worth it for
> > the time it saves.
> >
> > --- JD <jgd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > http://www.MSExchange.org/
> > >
> > >
> > > I use Profgen.exe (in Exchange 2000 Resource Kit) to connect users
> > > to their mailboxes in the logon script. This is because I have
> > > hundreds of roving users who move from machine to machine. Profgen
> > > then looks at an Outlook.prf file which you specify and
> > > can include %USERNAME% in for the mailbox name.
> > > %USERNAME% hooks up to the display name of the user
> > > in AD, which then connects it to the GUID of the
> > > mailbox.
> > >
> > > However, I have one major problem. If a user has
> > > username 'abc' and another user exists with username
> > > abcd or dabc, then Outlook always asks you whether
> > > you want mailbox abc, abcd or dabc after you have
> > > logged in and %USERNAME% is abc. Very annoying, particularly as
> > > several of our users have short usernames which are contained in
> > > other usernames - hence they get a long list of mailboxes to connect
> > > to every time they log on and open Outlook. It
> > > seems outlook won't accept that I have specified the
> > > EXACT mailbox name and insists on doing an Active
> > > Directory search for the string. If the search
> > > returns more than one mailbox name then it doesn't
> > > automatically connect but gives a choice.
> > >
> > > Anyone know of a solution? Can this AD search be
> > > prevented?
> > > Many thanks in advance for any help offered - I have
> > > a lot of frustrated users here and can't be the only
> > > one with this problem!
> > >
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