changing internet only outlook to corporate or workgroup

[Cary Shultz]

-----Original Message-----
Is there a way in group policy to change outlook 2000 mail
settings from "Internet only" to "Corporate or Workgroup"
We are changing from a POP3 forwarder to Exchange 2000.
My attempt to do this has revolved around a deployment of
Office 2000 through group policy. None of our
workstations have Office depolyed through group policy. It
installs, replaces the existing version and has the
correct settings (corporate or workgroup) but internet e-
mail is checked instead of Exchange Transport.

I'm sure I'm overlooking something simple or maybe it's a
mistake to try to combine the group policy deployment
office in the same step.

Thanks,
Dean
.Dean,

Were this just a simple "How do I change Outlook
to 'Corporate or Workgroup' question I would say to open
up Outlook, go to Tools, then to Options, then to the Mail
Delivery Tab and at the bottom hit the 'Reconfigure Mail
Support...' button and then select 'Corporate or
Workgroup' radio button.

However, you are doing this through GPO. COnsider taking
a look at the Office Resource Kit. You can download it
from the MS website. It is ORKTools.exe. Install that on
the server where you have the adminsitrative installation
of Office 2000. Then, run the Custom Installation
Wizzard. This allows you to create the .mst file (
TRANSFORMS file ). Part of this process is to "customize"
Outlook so that when you double-click on the OUTLOOK icon
on the user's desktop Outlook pretty much has all the
information to just install - without prompting you with
the usual questions. You can configure what "Services"
are installed, what the name of the Exchange Server is,
etc...

However, please note that in order to make use of .mst
files you have to either ADVANCED assign or ADVANCED
publish this GPO ( with ADVANCED being the key word! ).

HTH,

Cary

 

[Dean]

Thanks for the quick reply. This is exactly what I did.
Although the install succeeded and the correct exchange
properties were added, the internet only e-mail option was
checked and not exchange. I wanted the reverse to occur
(exchane to be checked and Internet e-mail unchecked) I
would like to use group policy so that I do not have to
remote into every desktop in our company.

Thanks,
Dean

 

[Cary Shultz]

-----Original Message-----

Thanks for the quick reply. This is exactly what I did.
Although the install succeeded and the correct exchange
properties were added, the internet only e-mail option was
checked and not exchange. I wanted the reverse to occur
(exchane to be checked and Internet e-mail unchecked) I
would like to use group policy so that I do not have to
remote into every desktop in our company.

Thanks,
Dean
.

Dean,

Just a couple of shots in the dark - I have never seen
this before:

1) are you installing the same MS Office 2000 ( meaning
you had MS Office 2000 Standard manually installed and are
using MS Office 2000 Standard to install via GPO )?

2) did you advanced assign or advanced publish Office 2000?
2a) did you do that to the user configuration or to the
computer configuration ( obviously the advanced publish is
not available to the computer configuration )?

I have not really had any luck with Office 2000 advanced
assigned and making use of an .mst file to the user
configuration actually removing the pre-existing
installation of Office 2000 ( same "version" ). The user
settings remain the same ( due to the fact that they are
stored in a "unrealted" folder - meaning, not Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office )...

This *COULD* have something to do with it!!!???!!! What I
have done in the past is completely remove Office 2000 (
what a pain ) and then install via GPO....I know that this
is not the best of ways but it works. And, the clients
that I have are usually small in numbers ( three to 45 ).

Looking forward to your next post...

HTH,

Cary

 

[Dean]

-----Original Message-----

Dean,

Just a couple of shots in the dark - I have never seen
this before:

1) are you installing the same MS Office 2000 ( meaning
you had MS Office 2000 Standard manually installed and are
using MS Office 2000 Standard to install via GPO )?

2) did you advanced assign or advanced publish Office 2000?
2a) did you do that to the user configuration or to the
computer configuration ( obviously the advanced publish is
not available to the computer configuration )?

I have not really had any luck with Office 2000 advanced
assigned and making use of an .mst file to the user
configuration actually removing the pre-existing
installation of Office 2000 ( same "version" ). The user
settings remain the same ( due to the fact that they are
stored in a "unrealted" folder - meaning, not Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office )...

This *COULD* have something to do with it!!!???!!! What I
have done in the past is completely remove Office 2000 (
what a pain ) and then install via GPO....I know that this
is not the best of ways but it works. And, the clients
that I have are usually small in numbers ( three to 45 ).

Looking forward to your next post...

HTH,

Cary
.

Thanks again.

I'm using and advanced assign to the computer account with
eleveated privileges for the install. The GPO is using
the same version of Office that I'm replacing (Office 2000
Premium). I unistalled the disk version from my laptop
and will deploy it through group policy.

I'll let you know what happens.

Dean