Signature Automation?

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Joseph Boswell

So I am running an Exchange 2k3 server with Office 2k3 clients all
encompassed in an AD Network, what I wanted to do was be able to have all my
clients pulling a signature from a centralized template that will pull the
information from their AD Object...

So that basically I would like an XML template or something that links to
the information in the AD and just gets pulled when the users create a new
email.

I would think this is definitely possible but I cannot figure out where any
info on this is?

Joe
 
Outlook 2003's built-in signature functionality uses .htm, .txt, and .rtf
files (one for each signature, in each format) in the \Documents and
Settings\%username%\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures folder. Your
application would need to generate signature files there if you want users
to be able to use them in the normal fashion.

That's the easy part. The hard part is that Outlook 2003 uses per-account
signatures, so if you want to make a particular signature the default for
the user's Exchange account, you would have to locate the signature among
the undocumented registry entries for each account in the user's Outlook
profile, apparently under the key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\<profile
name>\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676 .

FWIW, there are third-party Exchange addins that apply that kind of
per-sender signature as part of a required disclaimer, at the server. See
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/content_control.htm
 
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