Automatic New User Setup Outlook 2003

[Guest]

Hi,

I am wondering if there is a way to make it so that when user that hasn't
signed on to one of our PC's can have certain Outlook settings automatically
configured for them. Currently I have to go to the persons PC have them sign
on and then I manually configure Outlook through the wizard for them. There
are also a few other Outlook settings that I enable/disable in the process.
This seems so counterproductive and I can't believe that large companies do
this.

The other reason that it would be nice is because a number of our customer
service people rotate from computer to computer. In their case I make them
use OWA for e-mail. However, OWA cannot be set as a default e-mail client
(as far as I know) and this makes it difficult when trying to setup mailto:
links on our Intranet site.

I have read a little about a third party program called Profile Maker that
supposedly will automate this process, but I know no one that has any prior
experience with it. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Sincerely,
Adrian Iwanczuk

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I think Profile Maker, and its big brother, Policy Maker, are excellent products that you may want to take a look at.

But what you want to do can also be accomplished with the tools in the Office Resource Kit -- the Custom Installation Wizard and Custom Maintenance Wizard tools that allow you to create and deploy a .prf file containing profile settings.

If you want to continue with OWA, see http://blogs.msdn.com/tmeston/archive/2004/01/08/48837.aspx for information on how to make it work with mailto links.