Microsoft Outlook Signatures 1

[Animasu]

Hi, A while back i made signatures for everyones Outlook emails in HTML, which included the name of the person/company, address , phone, numbers etc... a while back the company changed its name only slightly but the signatures now need changeing again.
On start up there is a login.bat script that runs on everyones computer, i was wondering if there is anyway i could change the outlook signatures via this, or if there is any other way to change them without going round all 80 - 100 computers and changeing it manually

I Hope someone can help

Thank you

- Animasu

 

[GWaddell]

hi
I have a similar problem. My company wants me to write a script or app that queries active directory and creates a signature for everyone based on a standard template. -easy enough using VBScript or VB to query the Active Directory

BUT here is the rub, they want me to lock down Outlook so they have to use this signature and they want it to update dynamically each time with the details from Active directory in case a job title or phone extension changes.

Outlook will only allow HTML RTF and txt files to be used as signatures so my script will have to create an html file
on the fly - yuck it will slow down everything! (stored in C:\documents and settings\<user name>\Application Data\Microsoft\signatures) and even then there is no way I can see to lock down and control what if any signature somebody uses.

 

[Animasu]

I managed to find out how to change the signatures in the end, we have a logon batch file that always runs on boot so i just used that to change the sigs for each person,

I’ve never actually heard of a way to lock down the sigs for everyone on Outlook either.
But, i noticed on a new piece of hardware we just got called a Net Pilot (runs on Linux, 2 firewalls, email filtering/scanning, virus, spam, malware protection... and lots of other nifty tricks), it gives you the ability to set a standard signature for everyone, as a email is sent (Scans the email for virus's then adds a signature/footer to the end of it),
Whether you could use something like this to lookup the name of who is sending the email, query the AD, get the information it needs, then link that person to a signature/footer could be a way around it? Might be quite complicated but its just a idea!

- James/Animasu


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