[THIN] Re: Office 97 User Prompt
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:46:47 -0000
Loop through each character in the string, use asc function to get the ASCII
value of the character, then use the rather handy dectohex function to
convert it to hex. When I wrote my script in Kix, Kix *then* didn't have a
handy dectohex function, so I had to write my own :-(
Pad each two character ASCII code for each character from the name string
with two trailing zeros, and bung an extra two zeros on the end of the
string when you've finished, so you've got a new string which is a padded
(with two zeros after each character representation) ASCII representation of
your original text string, then use writevalue to write it to the registry.
Any issues, holler, and I'll include sample code.
Cheers
Neil
PS: Oh as for doing the LDAP call, I can understand why you're doing that -
but if you don't wanna take the hit on doing the look-up (presumably you
have to make some assumptions for the DN?), you could always use the comma
in the @FULLNAME macro's output string, and do a switcheroo... just a
thought...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Marshall [mailto:jamie.marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 February 2003 12:51
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 97 User Prompt
>
> I used KIX to do and LDAP query against the AD, this customer
> has lastname, firstname, so I then swap em about in KIX so
> the @fullname is firstname lastname. How would I convert
> this into hex or binary so I can squirt it into the registy?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 February 2003 12:28
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 97 User Prompt
>
> Personally, I've always scripted it - but then I've always
> used mandatory profiles, and presetting some generic settings
> wasn't going to work for me (document sharing would probably
> be most confusing), so I really had no option.
>
> If your users are using normal, sustained profiles, perhaps
> initially prompting them, isn't such a bad thing.
>
> It could be scripted, via various means, I wrote it in Kix,
> originally.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jamie Marshall [mailto:jamie.marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 03 February 2003 12:15
> > To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 97 User Prompt
> >
> > thanks Neil.....I was messing about the the registered user
> > filed...obviously to no avail....i know all about them being
> > tricky to script ( I got all the info from doing an LDAP
> > query, but couldn't convert to hex or binary in a clean
> > reliable fashion) so have managed to convince the customer
> > that his clients will know their own name.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 03 February 2003 11:48
> > To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 97 User Prompt
> >
> > If UserInitials and UserName in
> > (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\<8.0 for Office 97|9.0 for
> > Office 2000|10.0 for Office XP>\Common\UserInfo) values are
> > populated, the prompt won't appear.
> >
> > They are hex encoded, padded, ASCII (or probably, more appropriately
> > UNICODE) fields, though so are tricky to script or pre-empt -
> > unless you are going to use some generic values.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jamie Marshall [mailto:jamie.marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 03 February 2003 11:46
> > > To: THIN (E-mail)
> > > Subject: [THIN] Office 97 User Prompt
> > >
> > > Does any one know the reg key resonsible for prompting
> the user to
> > > enter their name and initials wne an Office 97 app is first run?
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