[THIN] Re: Office 2003 Suppress User name popup

Of course, it’s a binary value for pre 2007 versions of Office. Silly me!

 

From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:32 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 2003 Suppress User name popup

 

I reposted it to the list in 2003, see:-

 

http://www.freelists.org/post/thin/Outlook-Initials-Capture-using-Modified-Mandatory-Profile,4

 

and:

 

http://www.freelists.org/post/thin/Outlook-Initials-Capture-using-Modified-Mandatory-Profile,5

 

Neil

 

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From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil
Sent: 31 March 2009 09:11
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 2003 Suppress User name popup

I did this years ago (Office 97 first, then Office 2k, the Office 2k3) with a Kix script, if you search the archives you'll find it.

The reg value will depend on the version of office.

Neil

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From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Angela Smith
Sent: 31 March 2009 08:25
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 2003 Suppress User name popup

Hi

Very good point.  I neglected the username setting.  Im assuming you cannot set %username% in the ADM file..

Im willing to try a VB file.  I found this on the Internet but it doesn't work as I get error "Registry Editing has been disabled by your administrator".  We do disable registry editing via a GPO so I need code that will not interfere with this..

Regards
Angela

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Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 2003 Suppress User name popup
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:38:54 +1100
From: Jeremy.Saunders@datacom.com.au
To: thin@freelists.org

Hi Angela,

I would only ever do this via a cmd, VBScript, or Kix script. Taking care of the Company value is not a problem, but you want to individually set the UserName to the actual user of that session. If you do it through an ADM template, all users will have the same name, or you need to change the REG_SZ value to a REG_EXPAND_SZ and use %USERNAME%. Then you need to deal with the UserInitials. So how would you derive that? Typically it’s the first letter of the username. You may also be able to change that to a REG_EXPAND_SZ and use %USERNAME:~0,+1%, which will return the first letter of the username.

All this is very simple to achieve with a script to ensure that all users have personalised settings. You could also use the new GP Preferences too.

Not a lot of help because I don’t have a script you are looking for, but hope that helps you down the right path.

Cheers,

Jeremy.

From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Angela Smith
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:13 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 2003 Suppress User name popup

 

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