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NHAtlas - 28 Apr 2007 20:06 GMT

Can anyone help me remember how to create an email account in Outlook or
Outlook Express automatically from the user's logon information on a Windows
Server 2003/XP network, so that when the user logs on an e-mail account with
their name and e-mail address is created automatically? Does it involve
Active Directory? Or a script? ??

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 28 Apr 2007 20:48 GMT

Microsoft uses text files with a .prf extension and a highly structured format to provide information to OUtlook that enables Outlook to create or modify a mail profile. You can create such .prf files with the Custom Installation Wizard or Custom Maintenance Wizard tools in the Office Resource Kit. For more details, including a variety of .prf deployment methods, read the excellent white paper "Configuring Outlook Profiles by Using a PRF File" at http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?assetid=HA011403051033&QueryID=pHm
7c_60I&respos=3

The page at http://www.slipstick.com/exs/olroam.htm includes information on other profile tools and resources.

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> Can anyone help me remember how to create an email account in Outlook or
> Outlook Express automatically from the user's logon information on a Windows
> Server 2003/XP network, so that when the user logs on an e-mail account with
> their name and e-mail address is created automatically? Does it involve
> Active Directory? Or a script? ??

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NHAtlas - 29 Apr 2007 09:14 GMT

Hello. Thank you for your reply. I am reading the white paper. I have
downloaded the ORK. More later...

Nicholas Hewlett

> Microsoft uses text files with a .prf extension and a highly structured format to provide information to OUtlook that enables Outlook to create or modify a mail profile. You can create such .prf files with the Custom Installation Wizard or Custom Maintenance Wizard tools in the Office Resource Kit. For more details, including a variety of .prf deployment methods, read the excellent white paper "Configuring Outlook Profiles by Using a PRF File" at http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?assetid=HA011403051033&QueryID=pHm
7c_60I&respos=3
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> > their name and e-mail address is created automatically? Does it involve
> > Active Directory? Or a script? ??

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