Setting global signature for users on Outlook 2003 without Exchang

[Jimmy Madrid]

Hi there,

I am trying to set a global signature for numerous users on Outlook 2003.
We do not use Exchange for our mail server so using a SMTP transport event
sink isn't an option. I would like Outlook to pick up the html file
containing the signature from a network location.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Many thanks in advance for any help or advice offered.

 

[Diane Poremsky {MVP}]

Are you on a network? If so push the sig out to the using a logon script and
set it in the registry. If you update the sig, a logon script can replace
it.

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[Jimmy Madrid]

Many thanks for your replies.

Do you happen to know the location of the registry key?

Am I correct to understand the destination for the file(s) will be
%USERNAME%/Application Data/Microsoft/Signatures?

Finally, will I need to copy a .txt, .rtf and an .html file to the above
location for the signature to operate as intended?

Many thanks once again for your help.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Do you happen to know the location of the registry key?

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\xx.x\Outlook\Signatures

where "xx.x" corresponds to your version of Outlook. "11.0" for Outlook
2003

Am I correct to understand the destination for the file(s) will be
%USERNAME%/Application Data/Microsoft/Signatures?

By default, yes.

Finally, will I need to copy a .txt, .rtf and an .html file to the
above location for the signature to operate as intended?

Outlook should create the versions that don't exist. It does for me.

 

[Jimmy Madrid]

Thanks for your helpful message.

Have been looking in to this and despite having a signature enabled on my
test system there is nothing in the registry under the path you indicated.
Please can you let me know what sort of key I need to enter?

Many thanks!

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thanks for your helpful message.

Have been looking in to this and despite having a signature enabled
on my test system there is nothing in the registry under the path you
indicated. Please can you let me know what sort of key I need to
enter?

Perhaps this will help: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=938360