Where does outlook store account information

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junk

Hello,

I need to write a program that creates Outlook email accounts on user
computers. Before I can get started I need to know where Outlook
stores email account information for a user. Any ideas? I just need
to know for Outlook, not Outlook Express.


Aaron
 
Registry and you will want to take a look at the respective Office Resource
Kit for whichever version of Office/Outlook you are working with. Office
Resource Kit files are a free download from the Microsoft web site.
 
Thanks I will download some of the Resource Kits. I have tried
searching the registry for various key words relating to test accounts
(valid email addresses, server names, etc) and I could not find
anything (though I have not tried in all version of outlook, only
2000). Are the keys in plain text, our are they encrypted in some way?
Aaron
 
All versions of Outlook (under NT/2000/XP/2003) store profile information
at:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging
Subsystem\Profiles


And it in a way yes. Hence my suggestion that you take a look at the Office
Resource Kit (Custom Install Wizard). What you really need to focus in on
is *.PRF files.

/neo

ps - A *.prf file for Outlook 2003 doesn't work on earlier versions.
However I have one *.PRF + vbscript file that can build an Outlook 98/2000
Exchange mailbox profile.
 
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