installing Office 2000 via GPO - Outlook Settings

[Cary Shultz]

Howdy! Howdy!

First off, I have deployed Office 2000 a hundred times (
literally ) via GPO. Always do it the same way. Has yet
to fail. This time did not fail, just the Outlook
settings did not come through.

Create an Adminsitrative install of Office 2000. Update
that install to SP3. Install ORKTOOLS and use the
Customize Office Wizzard. I believe that it is Step 13 or
14 of the 17 where I can configure Outlook: Workgroup Or
Corporate, Services are Microsoft Exchange Server and
Outlook Address Book and I enter in the FQDN of the
Exchange Server ( w2kserver02.mydomain.com ). This has
worked a hundred times. Just did it Saturday without
fail. Today when I double-clicked the Outlook icon
expecting it to open right up to the Inbox I was prompted
for the Exchange Server name, etc.

There are no DNS issues.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Cary

 

[Jason Ede]

Why not just load the administrative templates for Office2000 into the GPO
and then can configure the outlook settings from there?

Jason

 

[Cary Shultz]

-----Original Message-----
Why not just load the administrative templates for Office2000 into the GPO
and then can configure the outlook settings from there?

Jason





.

Jason,

That would be something new. I am not aware of the
administrative templates for Office 2000. Could you point
me in the right direction?

Thank you. I always like to learn new ways to do
something. These NewsGroups are a really great place.

Thanks again,

Cary

 

[Jason Ede]

Assuming you've installed the Office resource kit on the server then:
Open up the user group policy object
Right click on the user administrative templates
Click on Add/Remove templates
Click on Add
Select all the office adm files ending with a 9 (10 is office XP)
Click open
click close
Edit away to hearts content

Jason

 

[Jason Ede]

I don't use exchange here, but from helping a friend I think the first time
outlooki starts up you need to tell it to use the exchange server and then
its fine

Jason

 

[Cary Shultz]

-----Original Message-----
I don't use exchange here, but from helping a friend I think the first time
outlooki starts up you need to tell it to use the exchange server and then
its fine

Jason




.

Jason,

You are correct. However, this is what my original post
was trying to figure out. I have created the .mst file
and configured the Outlook part to "answer those
questions" already....It has worked many times before but
not this time..

And, I did see an "Exchange" section in the Admin template
but it was simply an empty folder...

Thanks for your help,

Cary