Is there a way to use GPO to creates the user's Mail Account Profile when
the log into a machine that they have not been on before so they they don't
have to set it up themselves or so I don't have to have IT people stand
there with them and do it after they log in the first time?

Outlook being used is 2003 and is running as just a normal Exchange Client.
Nothing special, nothing unusual.

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

Microsoft uses text files with a .prf extension and a highly structured format to provide information to OUtlook that enables Outlook to create or modify a mail profile. You can create such .prf files with the Custom Installation Wizard or Custom Maintenance Wizard tools in the Office Resource Kit. For more details, including a variety of .prf deployment methods, read the excellent white paper "Configuring Outlook Profiles by Using a PRF File" at http://office.microsoft.com/search/r...60 I&respos=3

The page at http://www.slipstick.com/exs/olroam.htm includes information on other profile tools and resources.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Phillip Windell" @. wrote in message ...
Is there a way to use GPO to creates the user's Mail Account Profile when
the log into a machine that they have not been on before so they they don't
have to set it up themselves or so I don't have to have IT people stand
there with them and do it after they log in the first time?

Outlook being used is 2003 and is running as just a normal Exchange Client.
Nothing special, nothing unusual.

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

Ok.
Thanks Sue!

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com



"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
Microsoft uses text files with a .prf extension and a highly structured
format to provide information to OUtlook that enables Outlook to create or
modify a mail profile. You can create such .prf files with the Custom
Installation Wizard or Custom Maintenance Wizard tools in the Office
Resource Kit. For more details, including a variety of .prf deployment
methods, read the excellent white paper "Configuring Outlook Profiles by
Using a PRF File" at
http://office.microsoft.com/search/r...60 I&respos=3

The page at http://www.slipstick.com/exs/olroam.htm includes information on
other profile tools and resources.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Phillip Windell" @. wrote in message
...
Is there a way to use GPO to creates the user's Mail Account Profile when
the log into a machine that they have not been on before so they they
don't
have to set it up themselves or so I don't have to have IT people stand
there with them and do it after they log in the first time?

Outlook being used is 2003 and is running as just a normal Exchange
Client.
Nothing special, nothing unusual.

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com