Automating Profile Creation for Outlook 2000

Janna

Automating Profile Creation for Outlook 2000

Outlook591
I'm going insane trying to find any concreate examples of how to

automate this. I am trying to setup outlook so the first time the user

logs in and loads Outlook it will automatically connect to their

profile and connect to the exchange server. The user should not have

to setup anything.

I've spent quite a bit of time searching around to no avail with

anything helpful. Most of the links provided to free software that

supposedly do this do not work anymore. Other links take me to Outlook

2002 ot XP which isn't helpful to me.

I've tried using the Custom Installation Wizard for Office 2000 and

that doesn't work, it still prompts to connect to an exchange server,

etc.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Sue

Registered User

Thu Jan 26 18:04:52 CST 2006

Re:Automating Profile Creation for Outlook 2000

For Outlook 2000, you must use the Newprof.exe tool with a properly =

constructed .prf file. The tools are part of the Office Resource Kit =

downloads from=20

http://www.microsoft.com/office/orkarchive/2000ddl.htm#orktools. THe =

how-to is at=20

http://www.microsoft.com/Office/ork/2000/two/35t3_2.htm

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP

Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for=20

Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"David" <thechod@gmail.com>wrote in message =

Quote

I'm going insane trying to find any concreate examples of how to

automate this. I am trying to setup outlook so the first time the =

user

logs in and loads Outlook it will automatically connect to their

profile and connect to the exchange server. The user should not have

to setup anything.

=20

I've spent quite a bit of time searching around to no avail with

anything helpful. Most of the links provided to free software that

supposedly do this do not work anymore. Other links take me to =

Outlook

2002 ot XP which isn't helpful to me.

=20

I've tried using the Custom Installation Wizard for Office 2000 and

that doesn't work, it still prompts to connect to an exchange server,

etc.

=20

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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David

Registered User

Thu Jan 26 18:33:32 CST 2006

Re:Automating Profile Creation for Outlook 2000

Thanks, I did already have this but got a bit lucky and found another

thread that resolved this problem for me. I would create the custom

install for Office but it would never properly setup Outlook. The

registry fix in this post

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.exchange.clients/browse_thread/thread/c3052b93503db79d/438bdb47be4e8328?lnk=st&q=%22custom+installation+wizard%22+%22outlook+2000%22+exchange+settings&rnum=16&hl=en#438bdb47be4e8328

Resolved my problem. I simply changed it from version 11.0 to 9.0

since I'm dealing with Office 2000 and it worked like a charm.

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