Large Rollout of Entourage

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Christy Garl

I have about 400 Macs currently running quickmail 3.5. I need to rollout
entourage to all the users and configure it for each user. I had planned to
create an install package w/ package maker containing the app, updates, and
user data folder containing a generic user setup, and push it out to all
computers with ARD. I currently have a spreadsheet containing all the user
names, passwords and email addresses. My question is, is there a way that I
can somehow (script possibly) get that info into the identity files for
entourage so that I don't have to touch every machine, or rely on my users
to enter the info correctly? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Christy Garl said:
I have about 400 Macs currently running quickmail 3.5. I need to rollout
entourage to all the users and configure it for each user. I had planned to
create an install package w/ package maker containing the app, updates, and
user data folder containing a generic user setup, and push it out to all
computers with ARD.
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That sounds like a very good plan.
I currently have a spreadsheet containing all the user
names, passwords and email addresses. My question is, is there a way that I
can somehow (script possibly) get that info into the identity files for
entourage so that I don't have to touch every machine, or rely on my users
to enter the info correctly? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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You could create an AppleScript to set the accounts up in Entourage in
all individual machine.

It's a bit more difficlt to "push" the settings through ARD since they
reside in the Microsoft User Data folder in ~/Documents (meaning: in the
individual user accounts).

An appleScript could take care of the common settings while asking for
the additional information required (user name and password for
instance) and then set the whole thing up in Entourage.

Corentin
 
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