Username prompt

[hellraizer182]

I reinstall a lot of PCs everyday for my work, I work for a large company with about 1000 workers. I have successfully managed to create a windows xp unattended DVD which also installs office 2003.

What I would like to do is have a prompt during install that asks for a username, full name and a password. Form there I ideally want it to create a user with the username and also set up an office 2003 email account with the same details.

Any ideas how to go about this? I'm sure creating the user would not be a problem but not sure about the email.

Any help would be grateful.

[army20]

By saying "office 2003 email account" Do you mean an Outlook account for pop or for exchange ?

[hellraizer182]

Sorry, I should have given more details. We use an Imap server.

I have created an office .MST files which sets up things like address books, shortcuts etc. I'm trying to work out if there is a way though a prompt, that I can set up the users email account during installation, as this changes for every pc I install.

[Martin Zugec]

Dynamic outlook configuration is way to hell Try to have a look here: www.autoprof.com, product Profile Maker.

I am using it to configure office (and many other things) in almost every company I take care of.

[hellraizer182]

I don’t think product Profile Maker is what I'm looking for.

I'm trying to update my current unattended setup so it will pretty much install the basics for every user, including setup email accounts.

When I've worked this out, I'm going to move onto department specific installations.

[jondercik]

Just use the mst file to setup a default email account. In it use %USERNAME% for the username and ANY of your exchange servers for the exchange server, if its not the right one the user is on it will automatically get redirected.