Hi

I have a problem setting a default Signature for every user in my domain.

What i want is that no matter who logs in he or she will have the same Outlook Signature per default (and still be allowed to change it for those rare occasions where its needed). I have found no way of doing this through Exchange 2003 settings, neither through group policies.

What i did find out was that signature are placed in Doc and Sets\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Signatures (or something like that, i took it out of memory)

And that a default Signature name is stored in the reg database.

So one way of doing this is to populate these files through a login script and in the same script set the reg value....but comon that cannot be the only way...any of you guys got an idea, or perhaps a smart solution to the problem?

I think you have to buy a third party discalmier program or something

hmm...rather do the ugly hack then

I looked into this a few weeks ago because our boss requested that everyone has a disclaimer.

First I tried using a reg file like you mentioned but I couldn't get it to work. Please let me know if you have any success with this.

I also searched the net but the only answer seemed to be with the use of 3rd party software like adon said. Most of which you have to pay for

I dont fancy manually setting up all 110 employees outlook myself so I'm hoping somebody here will post an answer.

Exchange server (I think only 2003) has a "Add footer" option where you can sed common signature ...

thats unfortunate because I'm using 2000

Time to upgrade...

thats unfortunate because I'm using 2000

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check exchange documentation for version 2000, maybe it's available in 2000 as well

Thanks for the help klasika...ill look into it.

About the scripting solution what i did was, i made a little vbscript that gets the username from the AD then i copy a file on shared folder on the server (actually its 3 files, one for plain text, one for rtf and one for word)

into Document and Settings\THEUSERNAME\etc etc (to the place of the signature files)

Then i edit the registry to reflect the names of these files, i have only tested the script in a small test environment as of yet, but i have not experienced any problems. (the script is run a logon time if you were in doubt)