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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Installation and Configuration / December 2004Outlook 2003 PRF switches???
This is regarding Outlook 2003 (Office 2003)...We have the importprf switch in a batch file which lies in a login script so the first time a client logs into Windows XP and the batch file calls the importprf switch it runs the prf and opens outlook 2003 to create the Outlook profile. Is there a switch we can put in this importprf line in the batch file that stops Outlook from opening or is there no way around it? Here is the line in the batch file... "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\outlook.exe" /importprf S:\MIGRATE\newprof.PRF This line above obviously calls the outlook.exe and runs the newprof.prf from S mapped drive and opens Outlook 2003 when creating a new profile, is there a switch to put in the above line to stop Outlook from opening but still create the profile so when client opens Outlook by themselves the profile is created. What you require will take a registry change. Set HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup\ImportPRF to the path to your .prf file. Did you deploy Outlook/Office from an administrative installation point? This will determine whether you can deploy updates with the Custom Maintenance Wizard.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > This is regarding Outlook 2003 (Office 2003)...We have the importprf > switch [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > still create the profile so when client opens Outlook by themselves the > profile is created. Sue, thanks for the quick response, yes we are using an administrative installation point. We have a prf in the CIW for existing outlook profiles, but for new profiles to outlook for example when a user logs into a computer for the first time the S drive mapping launches an exchprof.bat which creates their outlook 2003 profile running the importprf line I gave below. So this is outside of the CIW and Custom Maintenance Wizard. I don't see that reg entry you gave me. > What you require will take a registry change. Set > HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup\ImportPRF to the path to [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > still create the profile so when client opens Outlook by themselves the > > profile is created. Let me put it another way: Don't use the /importprf switch. Instead, you can use the CMW to create a profile and incorporate it into a .cmw file. Then deploy the CMW file with the Maintwiz.exe file, as explained in the RK and in the last screen of the CMW. If you use the CMW Viewer, you'll see what registry entries are involved. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Sue, thanks for the quick response, yes we are using an administrative > installation point. We have a prf in the CIW for existing outlook [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] >> > still create the profile so when client opens Outlook by themselves the >> > profile is created. Sue, thanks for the quick response, yes we are using an administrative installation point. We have a prf in the CIW for existing outlook profiles, but for new profiles to outlook for example when a user logs into a computer for the first time the S drive mapping launches an exchprof.bat which creates their outlook 2003 profile running the importprf line I gave below. So this is outside of the CIW and Custom Maintenance Wizard. I don't see that reg entry you gave me. > What you require will take a registry change. Set > HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup\ImportPRF to the path to [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > still create the profile so when client opens Outlook by themselves the > > profile is created. |
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