OAB in automatic profile generation

[Christophe Rome]

Hi,

We use the Custom Installation Wizard from the Office 2003 ResKit to
automatically create profiles for Outlook. Profile generation works
well except for the Outlook Address Book service. I have tried all
kinds of settings (even created my own .prf files with the dummy
entries under de OAB-service headers and used those) but everytime two
profiles are being created and the OAB is always inserted in the wrong
one.

Example1: We tell CIW to make a new profile called 'TEST' in which it
needs to insert the OAB.
Result: a profile 'TEST' is made (without OAB) and a profile 'Default
Outlook Profile' is made (with the OAB). The 'TEST' profile is set to
default.

Example2: We tell CIW to modify the existing profile or to create a
profile called 'Default Outlook Profile'.
Result: a profile 'Default Outlook Profile' is made (without OAB) and
a profile 'BACKUP OF Default Outlook Profile' is made (with the OAB).
The profile 'Default Outlook Profile' is set to default.

Whatever we do, Outlook seems to create a new (non-default)-profile
for the OAB.

Has anybody got some advice? I've been reading a lot about this and
don't give me the third party tool approach. The feature is included
in the product so it should work, one way or the other.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Jason]

Has anybody got some advice? I've been reading a lot about this and

don't give me the third party tool approach. The feature is included
in the product so it should work, one way or the other.

LOL
Yeah right, we are talking about MS here!

Just for fun, don't be mad at me, could you test
Outlook Profiler and see how it performs this test
http://goffconcepts.com/products/windows/profiler/index.html

The only thing, it only creates a profile for the
"logged on user". In other words if "jenny" is logged
on you will see a profile for "jenny".

The problem your having is related to the way
MS has implemented the Extended MAPI API calls.

Most things are possible but they have to be custom
programmed using this API set. And it is NOT easy.