Outlook 2003 - Signatures

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Martyn

I am using a mandatory profile for multiple users. I have implemented the
Office Pofile Wizard as a means of allowing users to restore their own
personal settings. The signature is restored along with other settings but
not set as default. I have read of similar issues where SP1 (Hotfix KB837019)
is the recommended solution. I have installed SP1 but this makes no
difference. The same setup worked fine with Outlook 2002. Can anybody help?
Thanks.
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

The big difference between Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2002 with regard to signatures is that in 2003, signatures are account-specific and, therefore, are tied to the mail profile. Is your .ini file for the OPW set up to backup the mail profile settings or are you instead using a mandatory mail profile that's created new ever time?
 
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Martyn

Hi Sue, Thanks for getting back to me. I have not made any changes to the ini
file that comes with the resource kit at all on the assumption that it would
be backing up mail profile settings. Apologies if im going off track here but
after the batch file runs the restore and loads the ops file the users own
PRF file is loaded from a network share. Ive also tried changing the
defaultprofile value in the PRF to No.

Martyn
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

If you look at the .ini file or use the OPS file viewer, you'll see that the default behahvior is not to not back up mail profile settings. The ..ini file for the Save My Settings wizard interface does back them up.

What does the PRF file do? If it creates a new profile every time, then any signature settings will be overwritten every time.

The script at http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=821 takes a brute force approach to signatures, but would need to be applied after Outlook runs to process the PRF file.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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Martyn

Thanks. Ill go and have a look at the OPS & ini file. The PRF file is really
just specifying the exchange server and in some cases pointing users to ost
or pst files. I think it may well be overwriting. The default settings in the
PRF are DefaultProfile=Yes
OverwriteProfile=Append
ModifyDefaultProfileIfPresent=TRUE

I have tried changing the default profile setting but on hindsight im
guessing i would really need to change all 3?
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

The PRF settings all depend on exactly what you want it to do and to what profile. If you're using Append, I would expect the signature settings to survive, but test first.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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Martyn

Sue, Just a quick note to say thanks. I modified the ini file to include the
mail profile and this is now working. Thanks Again, it's appreciated.
 
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