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by todd o.

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Rhetorical question: How do you get an Outlook Client to "remember" the user name and domain name when connecting to an Exchange Server?

Answer: That's easy, you modify the Registry of the system where the
Outlook Email Client is installed. More specifically you access Microsoft
Article
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q198/4/38.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0 and follow the directions. This adds an additional key to the registry which provides a place in a user's profile to store the two pieces of information. It works like a charm.

Serious question: How do you take the above logic and propogate it to an Advanced Server 2000 system with Office 2000 loaded in Terminal Services mode i.e. how will each person who logs into the Terminal Server have their own little Exchange key to "remember" them each time they use Outlook on the Terminal Server to connect to their own mailboxes in the Exchange Server? Let's keep in mind that this will be happening simultaneously (multiple users logge

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by nuno

Well, I haven't actually use office 2000. However the way I do it on Office 97 is to have an outlook.prf file for each use that logs in to TS(citrix). I added the profile gnerator command, profgen.exe, to the login script. This command grabs the user settings from the profile file and invokes it to the user part of the resistry. As every concurrent user has his/her own user registry settings, this does not affect anyone else.
Hope this helps.
regards
Nuno Teixeira

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