[THIN] Re: Silent Outlook 2003 Profile Creation
- From: Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:48:46 +1200
yeah, I beat my head around the CIW for a while and then had someone
else here take a crack at it to make sure I wasn't completely crazy (a
little, but not completely). We both ended up in the same place with
about a two second msi popup.
I have been looking at the FlexProfile Kit 4.0 and you're right, I
think it might be the better route to go in general.
Now I am just debating whether or not to kill the server and start
over since it recommends making the mandatory profile on a box with no
apps installed. Ideally, I would like to follow Jereon's directions
comlpletely but I have this server just about ready for prime time and
killing it will hurt.
Greg
On 4/19/05, Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are you sure you've done the CIW correctly? I don't think I've ever
> seen an MSI installer box when using that method? You should see the
> configuring outlook/creating welcome message box with that BUT that is
> typical outlook.
>
> If I were you, I'd look at flex profile kit. that may solve your
> problem better than any of the three other methods.
>
> Jeff
>
> On 4/18/05, Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I used modprof and newprof for a long time to configure Outlook with
> > my users' mandatory profiles. It worked great and there were rarely
> > issues.
> >
> > Now in Outlook 2003, they changed it and this no longer works. From
> > what I can tell, there are a few options to create the profile for
> > Outlook in Office 2003.
> >
> > 1) Custom Installation Wizard 2) the /import prf switch when starting
> > Outlook, and 3) a registry tweak on
> > HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\setup to import the prf
> > and point it to the file.
> >
> > The problem with all of these is that the user has to wait while they
> > watch something happen. with the "importprf" methods, the users see
> > the "Configuring Outlook" and "Creating Welcome Message" box and with
> > the CIW method the get a msi installer box. (on a side note, I love
> > how silent mode on the msi stuff isn't silent, just vague. Typical/)
> >
> > When I was using modprof, I would just drop it in the users startup
> > folder and by the time the launched outlook, it had run nice and quiet
> > in the background and the users were none the wiser.
> >
> > Now, it runs when outlook runs and pesters the users with crap they
> > don't need to know about.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas on how to shape this so it creates the
> > profile, silently, for the users on Mandatory profiles each time they
> > login. I think they can handle seeing it once but it they see it each
> > time they log in, I will get flooded with calls which interrupts my
> > slacking off and listening to music all day.
> >
> > Greg
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