Shutting down Outlook

[chrisjg]

Hi all

Does anyone know of a way to shut down Microsoft Outlook 2000 from the command line.

If i explain what im trying to do maybe that would help

In my work place we have a large global address book that is constantly being updated. i have created a Win Rar self extracting file which will update this abs and reopen Outlook. but there is room to configure it to run a command before updating and this would be useful if i could get it to shutdown outlook as this would make it easier to distribute to our non computer literate users.

Any help greatly appreciated..


Thanks

 

[ojai00]

Here are the only switches that I found.

OL2000: Additional Command-Line Switches

If you open the command prompt and type "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\outlook.exe" and try a few switches. Here are the ones that don't work...

/exit
/fileexit
/close
/stop

Hey...I gave it a shot

 

[mechBgon]

Where I work, we do like this:

• Regional IS Director emails us a .pst file periodically which contains the latest address book
• We dump it into a shared directory
• Our systems run a log-in script that copies this .pst file onto the C:\ drive at every log-in
• Our Outlook clients are set up to use this .pst file as an address book (in Outlook, right-click the corresponding folder, click Properties, click Outlook Address Book, and check "Show this folder as an e-mail Address Book," or adapt this if you don't use Outlook 2000 like we do).
• Outlook can be set to use this Address List by default if desired.

Not sure if that is practical for your organization or not. But if you could maintain a master .pst file and have it copied at log-in, using log-in scripts, it might be worth the initial hassle of going from computer to computer to configure Outlook. If your address-book .pst file were on the C: drive, with Outlook 2000 you would click Tools > Services > Add and specify a .pst file, point it to the one the log-in script updates, then do as I mentioned above so it shows as an Address Book. If you use purely Internet-based accounts, then do the same thing by clicking File > Import and Export and specifying a .pst file, then pointing to it.

Optionally, if you want it to be the default one, go into Tools > Address Book > Tools > Options and put it on top of the stack. I'm going from memory here, so adapt as needed if I goofed