E2004: Modifying user configs REMOTELY?

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Paul Williams

We have around 250 seats of Entourage 2004. One of the abiding gripes with
the software is the way that we can't seem to get into Entourage's
preferences to do client software editing.

Example:
If I wanted to change a user's Directory Settings (pointing to a different
LDAP server for instance), I beleive would have to change that setting on
each user account individually. On 250 computers. :(

Or would I?

Is there any way to tell Entourage to make this change? AppleScript? shell
script? VB? NikeNet?

Thanks,

Paul
 
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claire

I looked at this, the server name itself is in the user's Database
file, I was hoping to use the sed command through Remote Desktop to
search and replace for the server name, but as the Database is a binary
file according to OS X sed is not an option.

I don't know any other way to do it remotely. Does seem to be a really
unhelpful way of storing this kind of information.

Claire
 
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Paul Williams

Claire,

Thanks. Unfortunately that's confirmed my fears!
FWIW, I'll contact our MS contact to constructively moan about this aspect
of Office.

Paul
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

We have around 250 seats of Entourage 2004. One of the abiding gripes with
the software is the way that we can't seem to get into Entourage's
preferences to do client software editing.

Example:
If I wanted to change a user's Directory Settings (pointing to a different
LDAP server for instance), I beleive would have to change that setting on
each user account individually. On 250 computers. :(

Or would I?

Is there any way to tell Entourage to make this change? AppleScript? shell
script? VB? NikeNet?

Thanks,

Paul
Click to expand...

Several of the exchange server settings are available through applescript -
for example, you can 'get' the LDAP server settings with:

LDAP server settings of Exchange account 1

Using the format of the record returned by that command you can also 'set'
the settings to something new.

Look at the properties of Exchange Accounts in the Entourage Applescript
Dictionary.
 
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Paul Williams

Barry,

Thanks for that... I had no idea the Office 2004 dictionarys were so rich!
(the last time I bothered to check an AppleScript dictionary I'm sure it had
one option: "Do VBScript...").

This is for a one-hit change for a number of machines that got the wrong
LDAP server attributed by the "setup wizard". I've tested it on a couple of
systems and it just works... funny. I really was expecting to have to visit
the workstations.

Thanks,

Paul
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Paul Williams said:
This is for a one-hit change for a number of machines that got the wrong
LDAP server attributed by the "setup wizard". I've tested it on a couple of
systems and it just works... funny. I really was expecting to have to visit
the workstations.
Click to expand...

Embedding the AppleScript in a shell script, I'm quite sure you can run
it on all the machines you control through Remote Desktop all together.

Corentin
 
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