Interesting! I've been tracking the "missing OAB" problem for months. This is a new bit of information on that problem. Given what you've found, one solution might be to write a script that preprocesses the ..prf file by replacing %username% with the user's actual name. This could be part of the user's login script.

Another solution is to give the user a second .prf file to run manually that just adds the address book.

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"Robert Burger" wrote in message ...
I want to generate a new outlook-profile for Outlook 2003 using a
default.prf. Two Services should be available: a) Exchange Server and b)
outlook address book.

When I use %username% for the mailboxname-attribute, the outlook address
book is not visible. But when I use instead of %username% a real name, for
example "Robert Burger", all is working fine and the outlook address book is
visible.

Has anyone an idea to make it working with %username%?