[THIN] Re: Outlook profiles getting mangled
- From: Steve Snyder <kwajalein@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:29:40 +1200
I think this may be close, I've run it on all of my servers but one server
is still obstinate and insists on recreating the profile. However, if you go
into the profiles and set it to use the backup copy (that it just made)
it'll open fine with that. Another reason to use Lotus Notes...
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Jeremy Saunders <
Jeremy.Saunders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yep…I personally do the following:
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> SDT.exe 1 1 1984
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> Cheers,
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> Jeremy.
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Steve Snyder
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:05 PM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Outlook profiles getting mangled
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> ah - looks like you set the dat *way back*, like Sherman and Mr Peabody. :)
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> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Steve Snyder <kwajalein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> So you just run SDT every night and set it to that day's date then?
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> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Steve Snyder <kwajalein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> absolutely! And it's my most recently built server that's giving me the
> problem.
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> Thanks Jeremy - I'll let you know what happens...
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> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Jeremy Saunders <
> Jeremy.Saunders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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,
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> Jeremy.
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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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