Outlook Profile creation

[marig]

Anyone have an easy way to create Outlook Profiles on XP workstations? Without having to log in as the user??? We use Exhange 5.5 on NT4.

I have tried working with profgen and newprof tools but find the documentation lacking.

I found a great tool called richprofile - but you still have to log in as the user on an XP workstation.

I have two reasons for this request.
1) When I set up a new machine for someone, I don't want to have to ask them for their password in order to set up Outlook for them. I also don't want to give them step-by-step instructions either.

2) People switch seats on a whim [their office too cold a certain day, they need an office with a door, etc] and when that happens we have to go to the machine and set up the Outlook profile.

I DON'T use roaming profiles since we have a mixture of win95, win98, w2k, and xp and my tests early on never worked.

I want anyone to sit down at any seat and be able to create their outlook profile with a click of a button.

suggestions?

 

[epohl]

You might want to use a product like ScriptLogic and have there profiles created by their login script.

http://www.scriptlogic.com/eng/home.asp

 

[kansaspcdoc]

Use the custom installation wizard from the Office XP Resource kit and create a PRF file that can be ran from an intranet server or a simple shortcut.