We are using the ORK to make a MST to install Outlook2002 along with a default profile. Copying a OAB file to the correct folder and changing the files rights sounds straight forward. My question is then don't I need to include an Offline Address Book entry in the profile? Maybe I should just get testing and find this out. Thanks Chris for a starting point.
From: Chris Scharff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Pushing OAB out to end users. Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 14:26:33 -0600
Yeah.. I believe all that we really did was copy it[1] to the proper location and uncheck the read-only attribute. New CDs were burned every 2 weeks I believe, which was necessary as they were migrating users over from another mail system at the same time they were doing the deployment.
[1] "it" being the 5(?) *.oab files.
On 3/11/03 14:10, "Tony Hlabse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Your first few sentences describes exactly what we would like to do. Send a
> CD to all/most users with Outloo2002 deployment and a starting point OAB.
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> From: Chris Scharff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Pushing OAB out to end users.
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 14:07:01 -0600
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> It can be done.[1] I worked through the logistics of doing so for a large
> customer a couple of years ago. I believe they wound up writing a script to
> wrap around the Outlook installation and configuration process which copied
> the OAB files from a network share or possibly a CD. OL2003 might have some
> other mechanisms for handling this... But I haven't seen the deployment
> tools yet to be sure.
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> [1] At least through OL2K.
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> On 3/11/03 11:22, "Tony Hlabse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Has anyone pushed out an OAB to end users to preload that file during
>> Outlook deployment for a new email system. This way when they go online
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>> the updates will be pulled down. With over 50K users in the GAL we are
>> trying to minimize traffic when the Exchange system goes live. We think
> it
>> can be done just never done it and was wondering if anyone here has done
>> this. If so how did you do it.
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