[THIN] Re: Outlook profiles getting mangled
- From: Steve Snyder <kwajalein@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 15:53:04 +1200
absolutely! And it's my most recently built server that's giving me the
problem.
Thanks Jeremy - I'll let you know what happens...
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Jeremy Saunders <
Jeremy.Saunders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
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> I haven’t seen this for a long time as I think it’s related to the
> Date/Time stamp on the Shadow Keys in the registry. Grab yourself the
> SDT.exe and RDT.exe utils from here
> http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2004/09/14/finally-shadow-key-timestamping-utilities-from-microsoft.aspx,
> and run them across all your servers. After EVERY application install, and
> also as a nightly scheduled task, I run this on every server I ever build.
> If you don’t, the time/date stamps will differ across all servers and
> depending on the time/data stamp on the settings in the users profile, their
> settings MAY be overwritten by the newer ones on the server in the Shadow
> Key.
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> Does that make sense?
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> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy.
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>
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Steve Snyder
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:03 AM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Outlook profiles getting mangled
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> Bizarre issue - office 2006 pro plu, sp2, installed on multiple w2k3 x64
> servers from the same install folder and transform file. Use mandatory
> profiles with FPK 6 along wit a PRF files to establish/maintain profile.
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> pretty consistently, but not always, as a user gets logged onto a different
> server than the last one used, Outlook recreates the profile, thus losing
> all of the previous setings. Log back on to another server and it does it
> again. So after a while the Show Profiles show a profile named Exchange, and
> a whole bunch of backups.
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> Anyone seen this and any clue why one server's Outlook apprently doesn't
> like another server's Outlook?
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> Keys being flexed are:
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> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging
> Subsystem
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