Need a way to take a group of profiles from one computer to others in outlook?

[scriabinop23]

Basically, I have a computer that is a network client and accesses PST
outlook data stores over a net share. This machine has 6 or 7 outlook
mail profiles and are switched upon at all, each referring to a
different POP account/PST file.

I need to copy these profiles and import them to a bunch of other
machines on the local network, so all of the other machines can access
the same network shares. Rather than manually entering each profile
(which is identical on each machine), there must be a tool to use to
export the profiles and import them into each machine.

I've seen some mention of the ORK toolkit and custom installation
wizard, but upon playing with that it looks like this is more geared
towards fresh customized installs of office. I don't need anything
this complicated - I just need to export my outlook profile set, and
reimport the identical one to a bunch of other machines on the network
that have the same client relationship to the PST file server.

Thanks,
Michael

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

The Save My Settings wizard that comes with Office 2003 can do that.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Or the Office Profile Wizard in the ORK, which is the same executable. The ORK docs on the OPW tell you how to customize it to save whatever settings you like.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[scriabinop23]

Before I made this post, I used this profile wizard mentioned, and yes
it copies signatures/settings/etc, but it does not copy multiple mail
profiles for import into other machines.

Using the OPS viewer, I found this file's references make no pointer to
discreet PST files of profiles, no mention of seperate profile names,
etc.

Anyway, after some combing, I found a manual registry copy method to do
what I want, but I'm not sure how well it works (haven't tried it).
Just by copying whats in the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
Messaging Subsystem\Profiles key to my destination computer, it may do
what I what. Any recommedations against this, or better alternatives?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The Save My Settings Wizard should copy all Outlook settings, including profiles and .pst files when I've used it. You can check the settings in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OPW11USR.INI file that the wizard loads to see what it's supposed to copy. You can also copy that .ini file to build your own to backup whatever specific settings you want to capture.

Copying the Profiles key will give you the account settings but not the ..pst files.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[scriabinop23]

you're right. actually in my opw11usr.ini file, the regkey that i
mentioned was commented out. after uncommenting it, it included all
the profiles. perfect.