Outlook Profile Update

M

msadexchman

Hello,

Here is my situation:

Presently, we have Outlook 2003 on our 100 desktops with a single IMAP
profile (presently using a Linux IMAP server). We're standing up our first
E2K3 server today. We'll be manually walking around tonight and adding a
2nd MAPI profile pointing to the new E2K3 server. This weekend, we'll be
migrating the mailbox data to the E2K3 mailboxes and come Monday morning, we
would like all the users mail profiles to be reversed (i.e. we want the MAPI
to E2K3 profile primary and the present IMAP one 2ndry).

Does anyone know if this is possible via a login script? What about a GPO?
Are there any utilities? The other issue we have is that every user in the
company also has a seperate domain account for remote access via Citrix
Metaframe. How would we go about updating those profiles? These users
cannot use OWA because they need the fat client which integrates with
another sales application.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Regards
 
M

msadexchman

Thanks. I do have a question regarding using the method. If I add
"outlook.exe /importprf" switch to my users login script, what happens if
after logging in first thing in the morning and the new .prf imports
successfully, if the user has to reboot 10 minutes later? If the /importprf
code is still in the loging script, will it try the import again and if so,
will it cause any issues?

Also, my users present deliver all the mail to a pst file locally, we're
going to make the new .prf to point to the mailbox, but my concern is, will
anything happen to that .pst file located in "my documents\etc..." when the
new .prf is imported?

Thanks
 
B

Brian Tillman

msadexchman said:
Presently, we have Outlook 2003 on our 100 desktops with a single IMAP
profile (presently using a Linux IMAP server). We're standing up our
first E2K3 server today. We'll be manually walking around tonight
and adding a 2nd MAPI profile pointing to the new E2K3 server.

You're confusing mail accounts and mail profiles. They're not the same
thing. Your multiple IMAP accounts will be in the same mail profile. Also,
since the second account is Exchange, you'd do better adding an Exchange
account as opposed to an IMAP account. IMAP accounts have no concept of any
item other than mail items. No calendar, no contacts, no tasks, etc. You
want those things and an Exchange account is how you get them. Moreover,
you'll be able to share calendars if need be, which is a handy feature.
This
weekend, we'll be migrating the mailbox data to the E2K3 mailboxes
and come Monday morning, we would like all the users mail profiles to
be reversed (i.e. we want the MAPI to E2K3 profile primary and the
present IMAP one 2ndry).

IMAP accounts can never be the default delivery location, but Exchange
accounts can.
Does anyone know if this is possible via a login script? What about a
GPO? Are there any utilities?

The remainder of your issues I cannot address, but someone else may.
 
M

msadexchman

Ok, everything is working like a charm. I created the custom .prf file
using the CIW and stored it up on a network share. I've added

if exist "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\outlook.exe" start
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\outlook.exe" /importprf
\\servername\outlook\exchange.prf

To a login script .bat and when a test user logs in, it runs and opens
Outlook with the new profile. My last issue is the following:

I need to put something in the script which basically says "if this has
already been run and the new .prf file has been downloaded, don't run this
again". This is because some users will be logging in more than once the
same day. I already tested this and confirmed that it pulls down the .prf
again and creates a 2nd backup copy.

How would I do that?
 

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