Outlook 2k3 Signatures: Setting which to use in the registry

[Neily]

Hi,

I have created a VBScript that will create a signature for Outlook 2003 (.txt, .htm, .rtf) that is populated from the information entered into Active Directory for the user.

For me and the second user I got to test this worked fine. I first delete the REG_BINARY key 'New Signature' and replace it with a REG_SZ one that contains the name of the signature. These keys are found in:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676\00000002\

I then rolled it out to a few more people for further testing and found that there settings were in the following place in the registry:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676\00000003\

Not a huge difference just the last part is 3 instead of 2. So I now also write the key here.

Now the problem is that I have found a further key (the same but with 6 instead of 3 or 2) and I need to find a way to detect were the setting should be set.

Does anyone know a way of doing this?

 

[58sniper]

Why do you just do this at the server level? Those signatures you're doing don't apply when other clients are used, such as OWA, OMA, Windows Mobile phones, Blackberrys, etc. Doing it at the server is more efficient.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
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