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federico
Hello, we wanted to implement a default signature in outlook for some users.
In order to have a default signature distrubuted via group policy I edited
the outlk11.adm that is available for Oulook 2003 by adding these lines:
CATEGORY "Signatures"
POLICY "Default Signatures"
KEYNAME "Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\MailSettings"
PART "New Message Signature" EDITTEXT
VALUENAME NewSignature
END PART
PART "Reply Message Signature" EDITTEXT
VALUENAME ReplySignature
END PART
END POLICY
END CATEGORY
This worked fine in adding an option for default signature name in outlook
so that when I open Outlook in for a user on to which the policy is applied,
I can see the chosen signature listed under Options | Mail Format.
Furthermore, once I have seen the the signature under "Options | Mail
Format, the signature is entered into any new email message, so the policy
works at this point.
The problem is that the policy does not work before I have opened Options |
Mail Format. In other words, I have to actually open Options | Mail Format
for the user to "activate" the policy. Before I browse to Options | Mail
Format I can see the registry entries in the registry by opening the
registry editor and browsing to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\MailSettings,
but even when the entries are in the registry and the signature files are in
the signature folder (%appdata%\Microsoft\Signatures), new messages do not
get the signature.
Does anyone has some suggestions as to what other registry entry I can
modify in Oulook to force it to use a particular signature?
Any help pointers will be greatly appreciated.
In order to have a default signature distrubuted via group policy I edited
the outlk11.adm that is available for Oulook 2003 by adding these lines:
CATEGORY "Signatures"
POLICY "Default Signatures"
KEYNAME "Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\MailSettings"
PART "New Message Signature" EDITTEXT
VALUENAME NewSignature
END PART
PART "Reply Message Signature" EDITTEXT
VALUENAME ReplySignature
END PART
END POLICY
END CATEGORY
This worked fine in adding an option for default signature name in outlook
so that when I open Outlook in for a user on to which the policy is applied,
I can see the chosen signature listed under Options | Mail Format.
Furthermore, once I have seen the the signature under "Options | Mail
Format, the signature is entered into any new email message, so the policy
works at this point.
The problem is that the policy does not work before I have opened Options |
Mail Format. In other words, I have to actually open Options | Mail Format
for the user to "activate" the policy. Before I browse to Options | Mail
Format I can see the registry entries in the registry by opening the
registry editor and browsing to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\MailSettings,
but even when the entries are in the registry and the signature files are in
the signature folder (%appdata%\Microsoft\Signatures), new messages do not
get the signature.
Does anyone has some suggestions as to what other registry entry I can
modify in Oulook to force it to use a particular signature?
Any help pointers will be greatly appreciated.