That makes it quite complicated.
Outlook 2000 stores signatures in two different places. Users of Word as the email editor (WordMail) will find the default signature in an AutoText entry named E-mail Signature in the Normal.dot template, so you'd have to distribute that template with the individual user's signature in it. For the normal Outlook editor, the signatures (.txt, ..htm, and .rtf) are stored in the %userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures. IIRC, the default signature for the normal editor in Outlook 2000 can be controled with GPO using two REG_SZ registry values -- NewSignature and ReplySignature -- in HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\MailSettings key.
Outlook 2003 also stores the signature files in the same location in %userprofile% but supports per-account signatures, tied to the accounts in the mail profile. The code sample at
http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=821 takes a brute force approach and sets the signature for every mail account to the desired values.
Alternatively, there is a new hotfix (898076) for Outlook 2003 that makes the NewSignature and ReplySignature values mentioned above function properly for Outlook 2003, in the HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\MailSettings key, of course.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
