Forced Corporate Signatures

[Mat Sutton]

We want to apply standard signatures to all our Outlook
users outbound email from Microsoft Outlook 2003 (running
on Exchange Server 2003)

We have written some code to "read" Active Directory and
gather details such as Name, Job Title, Direct Phone/Fax.
We have also written a VB utility that created three
files, esig.txt, esig.htm and esig.rtf in the users'
Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures folder structure.

We are now stumped at updating the registry settings. The
keys I think we need to update are below but a) the
profile name appears to change PC to PC and b) the
00000001 changes to 00000002 sometime also. Other than to
import a registry hive with all combinations, I cannot see
how to accomplish this. Any ideas?

(Why doesn't a corporate email system facilitate corporate
standards for signatures?)

Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Default Outlook
Profile\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676\00000001

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook 2003 signatures are not profile-specific. Whatever you put in the
Signatures folder will be used by all mail profiles for the current user.

What you are seeing in the registry might be per-account signature settings.
This is undocumented territory, so you're pretty much on your own. Trial and
error is your friend.

Corporate solutions are available. See
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/content_control.htm for various methods and
tools for controlling disclaimers and other signatures from the Exchange
server.

 

[Guest]

Do you know the registry key that holds a users' "default
profile" setting? From there I can set the registry keys
referred to bwelo for all sub keys that exist.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WIndows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging
Subsystem\Profiles. It's a string value named DefaultProfile.

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

 

[Guest]

How do we ask Microsoft about adding a feature for
centrally controlled email signatures for the corporate
market?

Mat

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

It's already supported in Exchange through event sinks, and there are many
third-party programs to do this. See
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/content_control.htm