RE: Outlook profiles in Windows 2000
Outlook Profiles are stored on a per user basis so what one user sees in terms of profiles will be different to the next user. You will need to add your list of profiles whilst logged on as that user. Best way to do this is to use a logon script to do it for you and run a command line profile generator (Profgen.exe from MS or createprf.exe at www.mailsoftware.co.uk will do it) Make sure you don't specify any profile as a default and then every time Outlook starts you will get asked which profile you wish to use! Kevin -Original Message- From: Stephen J. Norton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 August 2002 15:00 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook profiles in Windows 2000 I'm building some Windows 2000 machines for a remote office. All Windows profiles are stored locally. I'm trying to set up Outlook 2K so that whenever a user logs on, they will be presented with the choice of Outlook profiles when they launch Outlook. As Admin I can set this up within Outlook but if another user logs on, Outlook prompts them to create a mailbox and does not display the profile list I created. Tried MS search but wound up running in circles. Any help/advice would be appreciated. Steve List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Outlook Profiles
Look at my site www.mailsoftware.co.uk for a utility called createprf.exe. This is a bit less complicated than profgen/newprof but does the same job. -Original Message- From: Colin Maynard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 December 2001 09:04 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook Profiles Hi All, My company want to set up roaming profiles for Outlook only (Using Exchange 5.5 SP4). I believe that the only options we actually have are OWA and full NT roaming profiles but both of these solutions are not really acceptable in this case. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to achieve a roaming profile for Outlook only? BTW, manually setting profiles is also unacceptable as there are 600+ users. Thanks for any suggestions Colin Maynard List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Outlook Profiles
Can't you use profgen or something to create multiple profiles on each computer and have Outlook prompt for profile? Oh wait... Clients are NT/2000 right? William 'up too late' Lefkovics -Original Message- From: Colin Maynard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:04 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook Profiles Hi All, My company want to set up roaming profiles for Outlook only (Using Exchange 5.5 SP4). I believe that the only options we actually have are OWA and full NT roaming profiles but both of these solutions are not really acceptable in this case. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to achieve a roaming profile for Outlook only? BTW, manually setting profiles is also unacceptable as there are 600+ users. Thanks for any suggestions Colin Maynard List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Outlook Profiles
Not sure how feasible/possible this is (not enought caffeine), but if your users have server based home drives, could OL be configured to store it's profile data on there? -Original Message- From: Colin Maynard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 December 2001 09:04 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook Profiles Hi All, My company want to set up roaming profiles for Outlook only (Using Exchange 5.5 SP4). I believe that the only options we actually have are OWA and full NT roaming profiles but both of these solutions are not really acceptable in this case. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to achieve a roaming profile for Outlook only? BTW, manually setting profiles is also unacceptable as there are 600+ users. Thanks for any suggestions Colin Maynard List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Outlook Profiles
I am pretty sure this is not an option. Even if there were enough disk space on the server it would involve reconfiguring all the workstations, which brings us back to roaming profiles. Colin -Original Message- From: Boswell Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 December 2001 11:16 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook Profiles Not sure how feasible/possible this is (not enought caffeine), but if your users have server based home drives, could OL be configured to store it's profile data on there? -Original Message- From: Colin Maynard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 December 2001 09:04 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook Profiles Hi All, My company want to set up roaming profiles for Outlook only (Using Exchange 5.5 SP4). I believe that the only options we actually have are OWA and full NT roaming profiles but both of these solutions are not really acceptable in this case. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to achieve a roaming profile for Outlook only? BTW, manually setting profiles is also unacceptable as there are 600+ users. Thanks for any suggestions Colin Maynard List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Outlook Profiles
Yes, it should...profgen is in the BORK (I believe!) Ian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -Original Message- From: Colin Maynard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 7, 2001 06:40 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook Profiles Clients are NT/2000 with the exception of a few ;-). I am not familiar with profgen. Will it prompt for users to log in to Exchange on startup of Outlook and then create their profile on the local machine? If this is the case then how do I get my sticky fingers on it? Colin -Original Message- From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 December 2001 09:29 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook Profiles Can't you use profgen or something to create multiple profiles on each computer and have Outlook prompt for profile? Oh wait... Clients are NT/2000 right? William 'up too late' Lefkovics -Original Message- From: Colin Maynard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:04 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook Profiles Hi All, My company want to set up roaming profiles for Outlook only (Using Exchange 5.5 SP4). I believe that the only options we actually have are OWA and full NT roaming profiles but both of these solutions are not really acceptable in this case. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to achieve a roaming profile for Outlook only? BTW, manually setting profiles is also unacceptable as there are 600+ users. Thanks for any suggestions Colin Maynard List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
