having a users printers and email already setup

[lockmac]

Hi guys.

I am just curious, we have users at our company who most of the time use the same computer. The problem is, sometimes they use another computer, and when they log in, their email is not setup and neither are printers.

I know printers can be set up through the use of a batch script.
Is their any way to set up email? It is exchange, but its hosted exchange and runs over RPC. Usually, we just download a PRF file and set it up through that. Is their anyway we can have this set up for the user when they login?

Cheers

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: lockmac
Hi guys.

I am just curious, we have users at our company who most of the time use the same computer. The problem is, sometimes they use another computer, and when they log in, their email is not setup and neither are printers.

I know printers can be set up through the use of a batch script.
Is their any way to set up email? It is exchange, but its hosted exchange and runs over RPC. Usually, we just download a PRF file and set it up through that. Is their anyway we can have this set up for the user when they login?

Cheers

Sure - check out roaming profiles.

 

[TheKub]

Roming profiles are the worst, unless you are super restrictive in your environment.

I cant offer any direct experience with the exchange question but its likely it can be performed using basic scripting and\or GPOs.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: TheKub
Roming profiles are the worst, unless you are super restrictive in your environment.

I cant offer any direct experience with the exchange question but its likely it can be performed using basic scripting and\or GPOs.

Roaming profiles are wonderful if engineered correctly. If you don't know what you're doing, sure, there can be some problems, much like almost any functionality in Windows.

 

[MiniDoom]

what version of office? for 2003 you need to get the office deployment kit and make a mst file to customize your install and have email configured. if it's office 07 i think you just run setup /admin (msp) and customize the email settings.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: rdubbz420
what version of office? for 2003 you need to get the office deployment kit and make a mst file to customize your install and have email configured. if it's office 07 i think you just run setup /admin (msp) and customize the email settings.

How will that help in going to different machines and having all settings follow?

Later edit: that might - I think there's an option to use the user's login name to log into Outlook/Exchange; that might be enough, but no (local) settings would move over.

 

[lockmac]

The problem is that the managed exchange accounts dont have the same format as their active directory name.
e.g. active directory username is jsmith, email is john.smith
some user's dont even have email.

i might just leave it, seems its going to be quite hard