Re: Forced Corporate Signatures

From: Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] (suemvp_at_outlookcode.com)
Date: 03/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:50:44 -0500

Outlook 2003 signatures are not profile-specific. Whatever you put in the
Signatures folder will be used by all mail profiles for the current user.

What you are seeing in the registry might be per-account signature settings.
This is undocumented territory, so you're pretty much on your own. Trial and
error is your friend.

Corporate solutions are available. See
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/content_control.htm for various methods and
tools for controlling disclaimers and other signatures from the Exchange
server. 

-- 
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
     Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
     Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
     http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx
"Mat Sutton" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:fa2701c40d16$73a2d7b0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> We want to apply standard signatures to all our Outlook
> users outbound email from Microsoft Outlook 2003 (running
> on Exchange Server 2003)
>
> We have written some code to "read" Active Directory and
> gather details such as Name, Job Title, Direct Phone/Fax.
> We have also written a VB utility that created three
> files, esig.txt, esig.htm and esig.rtf in the users'
> Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures folder structure.
>
> We are now stumped at updating the registry settings.  The
> keys I think we need to update are below but a) the
> profile name appears to change PC to PC and b) the
> 00000001 changes to 00000002 sometime also.  Other than to
> import a registry hive with all combinations, I cannot see
> how to accomplish this.  Any ideas?
>
> (Why doesn't a corporate email system facilitate corporate
> standards for signatures?)
>
> Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
> Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Default Outlook
> Profile\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676\00000001

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