We use newprof.exe here in our Windows 2000 logon script to set up Outlook
2000 profiles and don't have too many problems. A few lessons from our
experiences, if you go down this road:
* You might want to put some sort of "Has-this-been-run-before?" registry
key in the logon script so that the profile is only generated the first time
the user logs on. It also allows you to re-generate a users Outlook profile
on the fly, which is often easier than trying to get the user to run through
control.exe mlcfg32.cpl.
* You also might need some keystroke-scripting to set the location that
Outlook delivers mail to. We seemed to have to do this.
* We had some trouble automating the question to import .sc2 data in the
past. I seem to remeber there is a registry that needs to be set in order to
ensure that this also works, but I can't remmeber the precise key is... Of
course, if your students don't have calendars, etc. This won't be a problem.
Obviously your mileage may vary, but hope this is useful to you anyhow.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bean, Rick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 21 August 2001 13:24
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Using Profgen and Windows 2000 Professional
>
>
> We had the same trouble. Search the knowledgebase for
> modprof. Profgen on
> older systems uses and executable called newprof.exe. This
> never worked for
> us in Win 2000 so I found the executable called modprof.exe
> (still from
> Microsoft). It works in 2000, but it isn't quite as
> predictable as I would
> like.
>
> -Rick
>
>
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> Network Administrator: UF Dept. of Ob/Gyn
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sabo, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 7:47 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: Using Profgen and Windows 2000 Professional
>
>
> We are using profgen here at the university to setup our student
> mailboxes that have mandatory profiles. It has been working
> fine with
> Windows NT 4.0 workstation but it doesn't do anything on the Windows
> 2000 workstations. I have checked technet but there is
> nothing on this
> subject. Does anyone know if there is a problem with using
> profgen and
> Windows 2000.
>
>
> What we tested so far:
> Logon to an Windows NT 4.0 SP6a - Outlook 2000 sr2 - machine -
> sucessful
> Logon to an Windows 2000 professional sp2 - outlook 2000 sr2 -
> machine - the batch file just doesn't run
>
> Do you have to modify the scripts?
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