[THIN] Re: Outlook profiles getting mangled
- From: Steve Snyder <kwajalein@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 15:58:54 +1200
So you just run SDT every night and set it to that day's date then?
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Steve Snyder <kwajalein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does that make sense?
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jeremy.
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyone seen this and any clue why one server's Outlook apprently doesn't
>> like another server's Outlook?
>>
>>
>>
>> Keys being flexed are:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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