Outlook 2000 on XP from exchange Server

[AcornD]

We are just about to upgrade all the machines in school to XP from Win98 Everything has gone smoothley upto the point of installing Office 2000.
In W98 we install office and then setup all the user profiles for Outlook Under the administrator account to the domain. When a User comes along that has access to Outlook they logon and then load outlook and are presented with a Profile dropdown box and choose there name all email intact.
Problem in windows XP setup office in the same way setup the profiles in outlook. Logged off user from ie science department comes along logsonto the computer tries to run Outlook and it goes and looks for some setup files then wants to be initialised for that user.
we need to beable to setup the computer for a whole department so that everyone in the department can logonto the machines and choose there own profile rather than having to go round and set it up for each individual user.

Any Ideas Im really stuck and this is the only thing that is holding the distribution rollout of the machines.

 

[Jump1ng]

If you have a windows 2000 domain why not use roaming profiles. This will enable every user their own profiles no matter what machine he/she sits at as the profiles are stored on the server.

To make sure you dont get asked for the office disk when a new user logs on to a pc chose to install the full outlook, word etc. as this will do the user setup process without having to read files from the office cd.

 

[AcornD]

weve been advised against roaming profiles as there are over 1200 people in the school. and this would put strain on the system.
we have installed the full outlook word etc from the server where it is installed.