"/Profile" switch fails

[Guest]

Hi all. I have a generic login to a workstation. I have various users that
use it to access their email. Security is not an issue. I have created an
"Outlook" icon for each user and in the properties of the object used the
/Profile username switch to open the individual users email. Once I open
Outlook, close it, and try to open it with a different profile, instead of
opening with the newly selected profile, the profile selection box comes up,
and is populated with the last logged in user. I have been careful to use
/profile not /profiles and I have verified the profile name.

Any ideas on how to dump the last user logged in from memory/cache/registry?

Any ideas why I cannot change the selected profile using the /profile switch?

TIA

 

[Roady [MVP]]

What version of Outlook are we talking about here?
Have you verified that the outlook.exe actually stops after closing Outlook
and before starting a new profile?
When the profile prompt comes up can you still successfully select another
mailbox?
Just curious; why not use that dialog instead of using shortcuts for each
user?

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Hi all. I have a generic login to a workstation. I have various users that
use it to access their email. Security is not an issue. I have created an
"Outlook" icon for each user and in the properties of the object used the
/Profile username switch to open the individual users email. Once I open
Outlook, close it, and try to open it with a different profile, instead of
opening with the newly selected profile, the profile selection box comes up,
and is populated with the last logged in user. I have been careful to use
/profile not /profiles and I have verified the profile name.

Any ideas on how to dump the last user logged in from memory/cache/registry?

Any ideas why I cannot change the selected profile using the /profile
switch?

TIA