Hi,

This is what i am attempting to do. Have a custom html signature for all
users in outlook 2003 and owa on sbs 2003 domain. I have tried unsuccessfully
to do the following it appears to work for the session but when ever they
logoff and try and logon to another pc in the domain the setting is lost or
rather the signature is available for the user to pick but it is not
automatically set as is needed.


This is what i have tried.

In outlook tools menu pick options, go to mail format tab. Under signatures
section:

Select signatures for account: Exchange server
Signature for new messages: saved html file

Then click ok.

This does not appear to work in the way i describe and would be surprised if
there wasnt a way to do it, how i need.

Thanks in advance,

Dan

Hi Daniel

When you "Select signatures for account: Exchange server"
You are selecting to use signature you have created on new emails which are
in the exchange account.
The signature itself is stored locally and used by the outlook client.
The default location is
C:\Documents and Settings\%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures

To distribute email signatures create a batch file to copy the signature
from your master location to the local computer. You can then call this batch
file in the logon script

examples

Same signature for all
IF EXIST "%userprofile%\application
data\microsoft\signatures\mastersignaturefilename. htm" GOTO SKIP
copy "sourcepath\mastersignaturefilename.htm" "%userprofile%\application
data\microsoft\signatures"
:SKIP


Individual for each user (you need to create each one in the master location
first)
IF EXIST "%userprofile%\application
data\microsoft\signatures\%username%.htm" GOTO SKIP
copy "sourcepath\%username%.*" "%userprofile%\application
data\microsoft\signatures"
:SKIP

Using th eskip if file exists allows the user to keep tand edit their own
version. I you don't do this the file will be overwritten on every logon

OWA is a different issue which I am working on as the of course the
signature is not stored locally

I hope this helps

Regards

Colin


"DanielN" wrote:

Hi,

This is what i am attempting to do. Have a custom html signature for all
users in outlook 2003 and owa on sbs 2003 domain. I have tried unsuccessfully
to do the following it appears to work for the session but when ever they
logoff and try and logon to another pc in the domain the setting is lost or
rather the signature is available for the user to pick but it is not
automatically set as is needed.


This is what i have tried.

In outlook tools menu pick options, go to mail format tab. Under signatures
section:

Select signatures for account: Exchange server
Signature for new messages: saved html file

Then click ok.

This does not appear to work in the way i describe and would be surprised if
there wasnt a way to do it, how i need.

Thanks in advance,

Dan

thanks colin,

I will give this ago i assume outlook will automatically use the signature
assuming the file is copied from the source location if i have got that right.

Daniel

"ColinMcD" wrote:

Hi Daniel

When you "Select signatures for account: Exchange server"
You are selecting to use signature you have created on new emails which are
in the exchange account.
The signature itself is stored locally and used by the outlook client.
The default location is
C:\Documents and Settings\%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures

To distribute email signatures create a batch file to copy the signature
from your master location to the local computer. You can then call this batch
file in the logon script

examples

Same signature for all
IF EXIST "%userprofile%\application
data\microsoft\signatures\mastersignaturefilename. htm" GOTO SKIP
copy "sourcepath\mastersignaturefilename.htm" "%userprofile%\application
data\microsoft\signatures"
:SKIP


Individual for each user (you need to create each one in the master location
first)
IF EXIST "%userprofile%\application
data\microsoft\signatures\%username%.htm" GOTO SKIP
copy "sourcepath\%username%.*" "%userprofile%\application
data\microsoft\signatures"
:SKIP

Using th eskip if file exists allows the user to keep tand edit their own
version. I you don't do this the file will be overwritten on every logon

OWA is a different issue which I am working on as the of course the
signature is not stored locally

I hope this helps

Regards

Colin


"DanielN" wrote:

Hi,

This is what i am attempting to do. Have a custom html signature for all
users in outlook 2003 and owa on sbs 2003 domain. I have tried unsuccessfully
to do the following it appears to work for the session but when ever they
logoff and try and logon to another pc in the domain the setting is lost or
rather the signature is available for the user to pick but it is not
automatically set as is needed.


This is what i have tried.

In outlook tools menu pick options, go to mail format tab. Under signatures
section:

Select signatures for account: Exchange server
Signature for new messages: saved html file

Then click ok.

This does not appear to work in the way i describe and would be surprised if
there wasnt a way to do it, how i need.

Thanks in advance,

Dan