Re: Forced Corporate Signatures

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 05:48:10 -0800

Do you know the registry key that holds a users' "default
profile" setting? From there I can set the registry keys
referred to bwelo for all sub keys that exist.

Thanks in advance.

>-----Original Message-----
>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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