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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Installation and Configuration / April 2005Configuring Outlook 2003 Outlook Address Book Setting
We are deploying Office 2003 to thousands of computers on our network. We have used the Custom Installation Wizard to create a MST file with our configuration settings, however, we can't figure out how to set the "Show this folder As an e-mail Address Book" setting so Contacts will appear in the Address Book. I created an OPS, a PRF, tried capturing the settings using a diff tool, changed the settings in the MST, but nothing seems to work. Does anyone know how to do this? It is not possible to set that with a PRF. If the Outlook Address Book service is present, though, the user's default Contacts folder should be included automatically. Are you seeing other behavior?  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > We are deploying Office 2003 to thousands of computers on > our network. We have used the Custom Installation Wizard [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > the settings in the MST, but nothing seems to work. Does > anyone know how to do this? After we install Office 2003 using our transform and launch Outlook, then go to Tools\E-mail Accounts...then select "View or change existing directories or Address Books" it is blank. We have to manually add the Outlook Address Book so we can enable the "Show this folder As an e-mail Address Book" setting (otherwise it is grayed out). So, I guess the question is, how do we include the Outlook Address Book service as part of the install? Am I setting something incorrectly in the transform? Thanks for your assistance! >-----Original Message----- >It is not possible to set that with a PRF. If the Outlook Address Book [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >. Getting the OAB to install is a separate issue from making a particular folder part of the Outlook Address Book. Did you include the OAB in your default Outlook profile settings in the transform? I've seen reports of the OAB not loading in the profile, but haven't had a chance to try to reproduce it here. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > After we install Office 2003 using our transform and > launch Outlook, then go to Tools\E-mail Accounts...then [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > > >. I included the OAB as part of the Outlook profile. In my transform I chose Modify Profile, added my server name and %USERNAME%, selected cached mode and added the OAB to the customize section. I have not tried building a New Profile with those same settings, but I will try that now (based on Seamus's suggestion). Thanks! Joan >-----Original Message----- >Getting the OAB to install is a separate issue from making a particular [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] > >. Within the custom installation Wizard on the Outlook: Customize Default Profile screen, select New Profile and configure it (Name it, %username% and add your exchange server, etc.). On the Add Accounts screen, select Customize additional Outlook profile and account info, click Add, and select Outlook Address Book. I had an existing install point and transform and I added the OAB my modifying the existing profile, but it never worked for me. May have been a fluke, but I had to set up the tranfrom from scratch and include the OAB in the package to get it to work. Hope that helps. PS - Once you get OAB added and open Outlook for the first time, it will take a little bit for the Contacts Folder to be added. I thought I was still going to have to manually set the Contacts properties to show up as an address book, but after a few seconds, the Contacts showed up. > After we install Office 2003 using our transform and > launch Outlook, then go to Tools\E-mail Accounts...then [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > > >. This is great information even if it was posted a year ago. We ar getting ready to install Outlook for several hundred users and had thi problem. This post helped me resolve the problem. Unfortunately I hav another problem. If I already installed Outlook without the OAB in th configured in the MST file, I can not get Outlook to reinstal correctly. I have uninstalled Office, delete all the registry keys I can fin that relate to Outlook and delete any files on the harddrive that see to relate to Outlook. When I reinstall Outlook with the correct MS file it still is broken. I know my MST is correct because if I instal on a fresh machine it works beautifully. Does anyone know where all these custom MST settings are store s they can be deleted? It would be nice to know how the garbage tha Outlook leave behind! Thank you. > [B]Within the custom installation Wizard on the Outlook: Customize - rangeli There should be no need to reinstall. Simply use the Custom Maintenance Wizard to create a .cmw file to update the user's Outlook mail profile to add the Outlook Address Book, then run that file with Maintwiz.exe as the Wizard instructs. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > This is great information even if it was posted a year ago. We are > getting ready to install Outlook for several hundred users and had this [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message526713.html "Joan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:16d9a01c41773> however, we can't figure out how to set the "Show this > folder As an e-mail Address Book" setting so Contacts will > appear in the Address Book. Keep checking this site. It is being actively developed. http://goff.nu/products/windows/profiler/ Hi Joan Join the club. All I did was try to repair my Outlook install, unsuccessfully, and when I reinstalled it has been user hell Read the other posts in this group and you and I are not alone. Yet, Microsoft has no articles dealing with this or the useless error messages they have built into WindowsXP and OfficeXP $70 billion in excess cash and we are left wasting our time all day. HELLO LINUX CALLIN Hello, Wish i could've helped you sooner but here is the info..There is a place in the CIW to add this. It is on the page: "Outlook:Add Accounts". Select the "Customize additional outlook profile and account information" radio button and the click add. Choose Outlook Address book. Hope that helped >-----Original Message----- >We are deploying Office 2003 to thousands of computers on [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >anyone know how to do this? >. |
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