Outlook and the Mailbox

I admin a small school network of about 30 workstations using SBS2000 as
our server. All the pupils in the school have a mandatory login profile
which makes life simple for us and all the children have the same settings
each time they login.

The problem is with the use of outlook and the mailbox. I assume that a
users mailbox setting is stored as part of the profile so each time a pupil
wishes to use outlook they:
1. right click the outlook icon on the desktop
2. find their mailbox using their own name
3. click OK (more than once)
4. run outlook

Is there a simple way around this. Can I alter the login script to amend
the registry (I have kix32 if that helps).

Thanks

Dave

Dave
Wed Jan 14 09:35:59 CST 2004

Not sure I understand - does each pupil have his/her own username and
password? If so, Outlook should automatically open to the correct profile.
If it doesn't, just set it up that way once and it should work thereafter.


"Smeg Head" <here.there@everywhere> wrote in message
news:Xns946FE2CF3A91Aherethereeverywhere@207.46.248.16...
> I admin a small school network of about 30 workstations using SBS2000 as
> our server. All the pupils in the school have a mandatory login profile
> which makes life simple for us and all the children have the same settings
> each time they login.
>
> The problem is with the use of outlook and the mailbox. I assume that a
> users mailbox setting is stored as part of the profile so each time a
pupil
> wishes to use outlook they:
> 1. right click the outlook icon on the desktop
> 2. find their mailbox using their own name
> 3. click OK (more than once)
> 4. run outlook
>
> Is there a simple way around this. Can I alter the login script to amend
> the registry (I have kix32 if that helps).
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave

Smeg
Wed Jan 14 13:07:53 CST 2004

The workstations are a mixture of NT4 and XP Pro.

To use outlook each pupil needs to:
1. Right click on the outlook icon on the desktop
2. Select properties
3. Select mail box info (I think - it's easier when its in front of you)
4. Change the name of the mailbox name
5. click to find the mailbox
6. Click OK 2 or 3 times.

Each pupil has his/her own username and password but access the same
mandatory profile. Also the exchange alias is the same as the username.

Does this make sense?

After altering it, I assume that the registry is updated and that would
normally be saved when logging out in a roaming profile. But it's a
mandatory profile so it isn't saved. We use mandatory profiles and they
serve us well, I don't want to change from using mandatory as this
outlook issue is the only disadvantage we have for our use.

Thanks

Dave


"Dave Nickason" <gwdibble@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote in
news:Ox2XdQr2DHA.1532@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl:

> Not sure I understand - does each pupil have his/her own username and
> password? If so, Outlook should automatically open to the correct
> profile. If it doesn't, just set it up that way once and it should
> work thereafter.
>
>
> "Smeg Head" <here.there@everywhere> wrote in message
> news:Xns946FE2CF3A91Aherethereeverywhere@207.46.248.16...
>> I admin a small school network of about 30 workstations using SBS2000
>> as our server. All the pupils in the school have a mandatory login
>> profile which makes life simple for us and all the children have the
>> same settings each time they login.
>>
>> The problem is with the use of outlook and the mailbox. I assume that
>> a users mailbox setting is stored as part of the profile so each time
>> a
> pupil
>> wishes to use outlook they:
>> 1. right click the outlook icon on the desktop
>> 2. find their mailbox using their own name
>> 3. click OK (more than once)
>> 4. run outlook
>>
>> Is there a simple way around this. Can I alter the login script to
>> amend the registry (I have kix32 if that helps).
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Dave
>
>
>

Dave
Wed Jan 14 13:53:33 CST 2004

You might try posting this in one of the Exchange groups. It's got to have
been addressed somehow, since there's a reference to this issue going all
the way back to NT4 (see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;158634). I got this
from a technet search for "mandatory profile," which unfortunately didn't
turn up anything more current.


"Smeg Head" <here.there@everywhere> wrote in message
news:Xns9470C2789E055herethereeverywhere@207.46.248.16...
> The workstations are a mixture of NT4 and XP Pro.
>
> To use outlook each pupil needs to:
> 1. Right click on the outlook icon on the desktop
> 2. Select properties
> 3. Select mail box info (I think - it's easier when its in front of you)
> 4. Change the name of the mailbox name
> 5. click to find the mailbox
> 6. Click OK 2 or 3 times.
>
> Each pupil has his/her own username and password but access the same
> mandatory profile. Also the exchange alias is the same as the username.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> After altering it, I assume that the registry is updated and that would
> normally be saved when logging out in a roaming profile. But it's a
> mandatory profile so it isn't saved. We use mandatory profiles and they
> serve us well, I don't want to change from using mandatory as this
> outlook issue is the only disadvantage we have for our use.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
>
>
> "Dave Nickason" <gwdibble@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote in
> news:Ox2XdQr2DHA.1532@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl:
>
> > Not sure I understand - does each pupil have his/her own username and
> > password? If so, Outlook should automatically open to the correct
> > profile. If it doesn't, just set it up that way once and it should
> > work thereafter.
> >
> >
> > "Smeg Head" <here.there@everywhere> wrote in message
> > news:Xns946FE2CF3A91Aherethereeverywhere@207.46.248.16...
> >> I admin a small school network of about 30 workstations using SBS2000
> >> as our server. All the pupils in the school have a mandatory login
> >> profile which makes life simple for us and all the children have the
> >> same settings each time they login.
> >>
> >> The problem is with the use of outlook and the mailbox. I assume that
> >> a users mailbox setting is stored as part of the profile so each time
> >> a
> > pupil
> >> wishes to use outlook they:
> >> 1. right click the outlook icon on the desktop
> >> 2. find their mailbox using their own name
> >> 3. click OK (more than once)
> >> 4. run outlook
> >>
> >> Is there a simple way around this. Can I alter the login script to
> >> amend the registry (I have kix32 if that helps).
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Dave
> >
> >
> >
>