Ok ... short briefing of environment:
Two AD-forrests. Users are in one forrest and are accessing their e-mail with another username and password in the other forrest. For reasons not worth mentioning here, this will be the scenario also in the future ... without any forrest trusts or other types of authentication integration whatsoever. Exchange 2000 on the server side. Outlook 2003 on the client side.
I need a simple way of creating users outlook profile automatically. I´ve played around with .prf files, but can´t say I am comfortable with them yet. There is a lot of parameters to set, but just a few I actually need.
My demands are modest:
- Configuration of exchange server
- Configuration of username (and password?)
- Already existing profiles should be overwritten
- No backup of existing profiles
- Displayname
- Users should have the possibility to store e-mail to a .pst file located at \\server\fileshare\username\mail.pst. This file should be automatically mapped at logontime
- That said, it is the mailbox itself that should be the target for mail delivery
I guess someone must have a working solution for something like this in their environment ... and I hope someone could give an example (in detail) that actually works.
What is the best approach for this after the yet-to-be-known-correct-prf-file is created? VB-script? Another scripting language?
Two AD-forrests. Users are in one forrest and are accessing their e-mail with another username and password in the other forrest. For reasons not worth mentioning here, this will be the scenario also in the future ... without any forrest trusts or other types of authentication integration whatsoever. Exchange 2000 on the server side. Outlook 2003 on the client side.
I need a simple way of creating users outlook profile automatically. I´ve played around with .prf files, but can´t say I am comfortable with them yet. There is a lot of parameters to set, but just a few I actually need.
My demands are modest:
- Configuration of exchange server
- Configuration of username (and password?)
- Already existing profiles should be overwritten
- No backup of existing profiles
- Displayname
- Users should have the possibility to store e-mail to a .pst file located at \\server\fileshare\username\mail.pst. This file should be automatically mapped at logontime
- That said, it is the mailbox itself that should be the target for mail delivery
I guess someone must have a working solution for something like this in their environment ... and I hope someone could give an example (in detail) that actually works.
What is the best approach for this after the yet-to-be-known-correct-prf-file is created? VB-script? Another scripting language?