[THIN] Re: Silent Outlook 2003 Profile Creation
- From: "Walter, Chris" <christopher.walter@xxxxxxx>
- To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:08:58 -0400
I use mandatory profiles as well and used the CIW. I don't have any of the
problems your talking about though. I am pretty sure most of those things
are configured in the CIW. However things like the Welcome message can be
configured or disabled by using the Office 2003 policies. I had my policies
setup before I ran it the first time so maybe that is why I didn't see these
problems. When I launch Outlook it takes me straight into Outlook without
any "Configuring Outlook" or "Welcome message". If you setup your profile
in the CIW then it should copy the prf file to the root of your install path
and call the file custom11.prf. If you don't use the /import it should
automatically use this file.
Something else of note, I had a problem a few weeks back with wanting to use
the PRF file to create the profile without actually launching Outlook.
Found out that this is not possible but Microsoft gave me a VB script with
an INI file that can be used to silently generate a profile. It is pretty
basic though and is only used to setup the Exchange service (No PAB or PST).
Microsoft said it came from sample code so it was ok for me to pass it
around if you want it.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Greg Reese
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 6:18 PM
To: Thin
Subject: [THIN] Silent Outlook 2003 Profile Creation
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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