Re: Forced Corporate Signatures

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From: Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] (suemvp_at_outlookcode.com)
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:21:16 -0500

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WIndows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging
Subsystem\Profiles. It's a string value named DefaultProfile. 

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1331001c4126f$cf6921e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> 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.
> >
> >"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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