Script to recreate Outlook 2010 mail profile

Question

I need to recreate a load of users' mail profiles in Outlook 2010. (It's a long story!)

To try and reduce "user error" I want to script this, so that it removes the user's mail profile, and recreates a replacement.

Is this possible? I've seen the Customer Maintenance Wizard for Outlook 2003, but can't find an equivalent for 2010.

Solution 1

Outlook 2010 will use auto configuration if you're able to set up the appropriate DNS records. This doesn't completely automate the process, but it will reduce the process to maybe 2-3 steps and eliminate 90% of the configuration work they have to do. All they (in theory) would need to know is their Name, email address, and password.

Solution 2

I'm assumming a single machine here with an Outlook client that does not involve Exchange.

When I upgraded my home machine from XP / Office 2003 --> Win 7 / Office 2010, I unfortunately noticed that many of the outlook settings and configurations were not contained in the PST file. I extracted this information from the user registry used in XP and imported them into the Win 7 registry. My settings basically came back.

My specific concern centered because I use my outlook client to access many different mailboxes on different machines. But this did the trick and I did not have to go through the effort of manually adding (much less remembering what I had done before).

In your case, find the specific area in the users' registry, save it, do the update.

BTW, I recently upgraded inplace from 2003 ---> 2010 at work and all my settings survived and were properly converted.

Comments

[Ben]

Cool - this could work. Found the following to assist me in removing the existing profile: social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/outlook/thread/… - once removed I guess it should autocreate again

[HostBits]

This would only work if it were Exchange 2007/2010, which it is not.

[Coding Gorilla]

@Cheekaleak You are correct, I thought this worked with Exchange 2003 as well, but I guess not. =(

[Ben]

Actually this worked with Exch 2003. Was getting error 0x80070057, but applying a hotfix (kb2281463) sorted this, and autoconfigure worked

[Coding Gorilla]

Awesome! That's good to know.