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Hello all, GitHub: https://github.com/captainqwerty/AutomatedOutlookSignature The above GitHub link is a modified version of a script I wrote to automate the creation of users Outlook signatures at work using details from their Active Directory account and as these details are checked at each logon it is dynamic towards changes such as job title. I have made the script a little more complex than the version we use in our environment. I have more checks for values in active directory in this version. It checks for each address element (PoBox, Street, zip code etc.), mobile, telephone, home phone (which we use for direct dial numbers), website and email, if any of these are blank in active directory the script will simply not add them to the HTML signature output so it is pretty flexible for different environments. Rather than heavily comment the script I have decided to cover it in detail in the readme, which I am in the process of writing so this will update over the next few days as I keep adding details to it but feel free to jump in and take a look and start using it 😊 If you have any questions and/or would like help altering it more for your own environment please feel free to ask in here / PM me. I have wrote the basics of the ReadMe on GitHub however I will be covering the script in more detail on there over the next few days. Here is an example of a generated email signature: Currently only tested on Outlook 2016 and Outlook 2019/O365 as that is what is in our environment, please feel free to modify the registry keys in the script to get it working on older versions of Outlook and I will happily amend the script with checks to work with more version 😊 I recommend setting the script in Group Policy as a PowerShell Logon Script. The main caveat is the users needs to have opened Outlook at least once before the script will work. So usually it goes, user logs in, opens Outlook, logs off and back on again and from then on, the signature will be displayed in all new emails and replies and if active directory details are changed such as job title, name (for example getting married) or work address etc. Once changed in AD they will update next logon. To modify this script, you only need basic PowerShell and HTML knowledge although I am more than happy to help you get the HTML to layout a signature how you desire for your own use, so please feel free to ask in thread and PM me. For those of you that are comfortable with GitHub please feel free to raise issues if you see any or suggest improvements. The reason I decided to use a script rather than Mail-Flow rules in Exchange is the undesired affects that occurred when using Mail-Flow rules: our users didn’t like the fact they couldn’t see their signature while writing emails; it was near impossible to get the signature to be applied to reply emails without just being pinned to the bottom of the thread and; it would repeat the signature at the bottom of the email over and over again and if you used a rule to detect it and not put it on again you only got the one signature at the very bottom of the message thread and not in replies. I personally found that there was not a great deal of information out there on how to control users Outlook signatures and products out there can be pricey especially for smaller businesses so I after I got this working I figured I would to share it you you guys and gals! I hope someone finds it useful Thanks everyone, QwertyMash

They are complaining that their view of Outlook has changed. I am able to sort it by connecting to them remotely and clicking View/Reading pane and then selecting 'Right' I am guessing that it is a recent Windows update as nothing I have done would be affecting Outlook this way.

We moved are staff and student users to O365 over the last year. Students are using mandatory profiles and access emails via OWA we also map OneDrive using a script. Staff are using roaming profiles and access emails with Outlook 2013 currently no mapping for them. I'm looking to move Staff to mandatory profiles but i want to keep Outlook 2013/16. I was planning to redirect the APPDATA folder to a hidden share on a file server as i can't see another way to push staff to mandatory profiles but allowing them to keep the mail profile or extra outlook settings. Was wondering how over admins are managing O365 within a college or school? Are end result is to completely remove network shares and have everything pushing to O365 or Sharepoint Online. Cheers J

Hi all, we had an issue with Office loading incorrectly on one of our machines our receptionist uses. I tried everything you could try and ended up rebuilding the machine as it was clearly not well. This fixed the issue with Office loading incorrectly but now after we logged the same person back into Office they now don't have the option to share there calendar to anyone else even though they could before the rebuild. Things that I have checked and tried: Right clicked on the callender in outlook and checked permissions Signed into office administrator account and checked the permissions on the calender email address Signed into the calender account and did the same All of these things where or are now correct and I still have greyed out options for share calender, publish online and calender permissions in outlook for our receptionist. Any ideas? Thanks

I think I know the answer here, but I can't be the only one who has come up against this. I want to close off all the old Year 13 accounts (bit overdue, tbh). We always disable accounts because it costs us nothing to keep them on hand. Files have been taken off the file server onto BluRay, and now I need to reclaim their Office 365 licences. Before I do that, and their mailboxes get deleted, I'd like to grab the PST to archive them, just in case. Storage is cheap and I'd rather have the data than not. Is there any way in Office 365 of doing this in bulk, or do I really have to add each mailbox to my Outlook and PST them one by one? New-MailboxExportRequest looks to be Exchange 2013 only, and whilst MessageOps can apparently do it it costs $1500pa for 1001-5000 mailboxes, and their free offer ("set us as your partner") doesn't apply to free education plans. So (a) does anyone else know how to do this without spending silly money? If I have to spend a few quid I'll live with it, but the pricing above is madness. (b) does anyone else even bother? Am I just being paranoid/overprepared?

This is an odd one, one member of staffs email messages are not showing up on anothers outlook 2013 or online Outlook on 365. I've tried focused inbox, resetting the view, checked for odd rules. and I'm out of ideas. if we perform a search for the sender user on the inbox of the receiver and the emails appear, otherwise they do not? Unread or read.... The default is all, they do not appear. This is the same on the online office 365 outlook as well... to be clear, the emails are arriving, a search shows them, but they do not show normally. Ideas?

HELP!!!!!!!!! I'm trying to upload a powershell script i made via Group Policy Management to generate email signatures for Staff via Active Directory, but every time i upload the script on and login, all i get is a black screen and when i remove it, it goes back to normal. I've checked Event Viewer and can't seem to find the source, any one have any ideas???????? Here's the script below if anyone whose curious: #Custom variables $SignatureName = 'Signature' $SigSource = "\\PREP-AD02\AD Resources$\Signature.docx" #Path to the *.docx file$SignatureVersion = "1.7" #Change this if you have updated the signature. If you do not change it, the script will quit after checking for the version already on the machine $ForceSignature = '1' #Set to 1 if you don't want the users to be able to change signature in Outlook #Environment variables $AppData=(Get-Item env:appdata).value $SigPath = '\Microsoft\Signatures' #Path to signatures. $LocalSignaturePath = $AppData+$SigPath $RemoteSignaturePathFull = $SigSource #Check signature path (needs to be created if a signature has never been created for the profile if (-not(Test-Path -path $LocalSignaturePath)) { New-Item $LocalSignaturePath -Type Directory} #Copy version file If (-not(Test-Path -Path $LocalSignaturePath\$SignatureVersion)) { If (Test-Path HKCU:'\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0') { $ForceKeyPathReply = (Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\MailSettings').ReplySignature -eq $null $ForceKeyPathNew = (Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\MailSettings').NewSignature -eq $null If ($ForceKeyPathReply -eq $False) {Remove-ItemProperty -path 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\MailSettings' -name ReplySignature} Else {Write-Host "The reg value does not exist"} If ($ForceKeyPathNew -eq $False) {Remove-ItemProperty -path 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\MailSettings' -name NewSignature} Else {Write-Host "The reg value does not exist"} } If ($ForceSignature -eq '1') { Get-ChildItem -Path $LocalSignaturePath -Recurse | foreach {remove-item $_.fullname -recurse -force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue} } New-Item -Path $LocalSignaturePath\$SignatureVersion -ItemType Directory } Elseif (Test-Path -Path $LocalSignaturePath\$SignatureVersion) { break } #Get Active Directory information for current user $UserName = $env:username $Filter = "(&(objectCategory=User)(samAccountName=$UserName))" $Searcher = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher $Searcher.Filter = $Filter $ADUserPath = $Searcher.FindOne() $ADUser = $ADUserPath.GetDirectoryEntry() $ADDisplayName = $ADUser.DisplayName $ADEmailAddress = $ADUser.mail $ADTitle = $ADUser.title $ADTelePhoneNumber = $ADUser.TelephoneNumber $ADModify = $ADUser.whenChanged #Copy signature templates from source to local Signature-folder Write-Output "Copying Signatures" Copy-Item "$Sigsource" $LocalSignaturePath -Recurse -Force $ReplaceAll = 2 $FindContinue = 1 $MatchCase = $False $MatchWholeWord = $True $MatchWildcards = $False $MatchSoundsLike = $False $MatchAllWordForms = $False $Forward = $True $Wrap = $FindContinue $Format = $False #Insert variables from Active Directory to rtf signature-file $MSWord = New-Object -ComObject word.application $fullPath = $LocalSignaturePath+'\'+$SignatureName+'.docx' $MSWord.Documents.Open($fullPath) #User Name $FindText = "DisplayName"$ReplaceText = $ADDisplayName.ToString()$MSWord.Selection.Find.Execute($FindText, $MatchCase, $MatchWholeWord, $MatchWildcards, $MatchSoundsLike, $MatchAllWordForms, $Forward, $Wrap, $Format, $ReplaceText, $ReplaceAll ) #Title $FindText = "Title" $ReplaceText = $ADTitle.ToString() $MSWord.Selection.Find.Execute($FindText, $MatchCase, $MatchWholeWord, $MatchWildcards, $MatchSoundsLike, $MatchAllWordForms, $Forward, $Wrap, $Format, $ReplaceText, $ReplaceAll ) #Email Address $FindText = "e-mail" $ReplaceText = $ADEmailAddress.ToString() $MSWord.Selection.Find.Execute($FindText, $MatchCase, $MatchWholeWord, $MatchWildcards, $MatchSoundsLike, $MatchAllWordForms, $Forward, $Wrap, $Format, $ReplaceText, $ReplaceAll ) #Save new message signature Write-Output "Saving signatures"#Save HTML $saveFormat = [Enum]::Parse([Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdSaveFormat], "wdFormatHTML"); $path = $LocalSignaturePath+'\'+$SignatureName+".htm" $MSWord.ActiveDocument.saveas([ref]$path, [ref]$saveFormat) #Save RTF $saveFormat = [Enum]::Parse([Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdSaveFormat], "wdFormatRTF"); $path = $LocalSignaturePath+'\'+$SignatureName+".rtf" $MSWord.ActiveDocument.SaveAs([ref] $path, [ref]$saveFormat) #Save TXT $saveFormat = [Enum]::Parse([Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdSaveFormat], "wdFormatText"); $path = $LocalSignaturePath+'\'+$SignatureName+".txt" $MSWord.ActiveDocument.SaveAs([ref] $path, [ref]$SaveFormat) $MSWord.ActiveDocument.Close() $MSWord.Quit() #Office 2016 signature If (Test-Path HKCU:Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0) { If ($ForceSignature -eq '0') { $ForceKeyPathReply = (Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\MailSettings').ReplySignature -eq $null $ForceKeyPathNew = (Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\MailSettings').NewSignature -eq $null If ($ForceKeyPathReply -eq $False) {Remove-ItemProperty -path 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\MailSettings' -name ReplySignature} Else {Write-Host "The reg value does not exist"} If ($ForceKeyPathNew -eq $False) {Remove-ItemProperty -path 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\MailSettings' -name NewSignature} Else {Write-Host "The reg value does not exist"} $MSWord = New-Object -comobject word.application $EmailOptions = $MSWord.EmailOptions $EmailSignature = $EmailOptions.EmailSignature $EmailSignatureEntries = $EmailSignature.EmailSignatureEntries $EmailSignature.NewMessageSignature=$SignatureName $EmailSignature.ReplyMessageSignature=$SignatureName $MSWord.Quit() } If ($ForceSignature -eq '1') { $MSWord = New-Object -comobject word.application $EmailOptions = $MSWord.EmailOptions $EmailSignature = $EmailOptions.EmailSignature $EmailSignatureEntries = $EmailSignature.EmailSignatureEntries $EmailSignature.NewMessageSignature=$SignatureName $EmailSignature.ReplyMessageSignature=$SignatureName $MSWord.Quit() If (Get-ItemProperty -Name 'NewSignature' -Path HKCU:'\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\MailSettings') { } Else { New-ItemProperty HKCU:'\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\MailSettings' -Name 'NewSignature' -Value $SignatureName -PropertyType 'String' -Force } If (Get-ItemProperty -Name 'ReplySignature' -Path HKCU:'\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\MailSettings') { } Else { New-ItemProperty HKCU:'\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\MailSettings' -Name 'ReplySignature' -Value $SignatureName -PropertyType 'String' -Force } } }

Hi, Got a bit a issue which I wanted to get some advice on. First some background information. I work in a school as a IT Tech and in previous years the AD Accounts (as well as email address) have taken the form of first letter of first name and first letter of second name "@ourschool.org.uk". Example if there was a teacher called John Smith his AD account would be [email protected]. I have been asked to recreate all the staff accounts (for a variety of reasons!) in the format of [email protected]. Example John Smith would now be [email protected]. Thats fine as I have created a nice powershell script to recreate the AD Accounts. My question is, is there a way I can migrate their old mailbox (i.e. [email protected]) to the new one (i.e. [email protected]) with some sort of powershell script? Or does someone know of a good third party tool? Let me know if that makes sense. Thanks!

Who thought this was a good idea! I've scrambled to disable this as users are just clicking it and loosing folders etc. Why would I want a webapp instead of the full desktop software! Thankfully after some new ADMX templates in the policy store you can stop it being offered, you'll also need a login script to uninstall it for curious users! what a pain, default in enterprise should be NO

Hello! First time caller here. I'm going to be running sessions on Outlook with staff in the school I work for, the aim is to show them tips, best practice, etc. Do you have any tips? Things to make their lives easier regarding emails? Achieving 'inbox zero'? Thanks, A

Hi All, Is there an easy way to import Microsoft outlook calendar to Hotmail calendar? Thanks in advance

Well, this is a Friday afternoon weird one. I have an email account/user here who's Sent Items in Outlook is showing various emails sent under a heading of "Next Week" - in the same way it would normally have "Today", "Yesterday". They won't settle for my explanation that Outlook is being extra efficient and doing next weeks work for them... I've checked all the obvious things - Exchange server date/time is correct, users laptop date/time is correct, emails showing as Next Week have definitely been sent and have been confirmed received by the recipients. Any ideas? I'm stumped!

I am in the final stages of testing a migration of a primary schools Office suite from Navaho to Window Server 2008R2, Exchange 2010, Outlook 2007. At the moment, there is very little reliance on IT Security/auditing so there is significant use of shared role based accounts rather than individual logins - I am planning that this will change! As a result, a number of critical external email accounts are role based. For some, bursar, headmaster etc, there is a 1:1 mapping with a person, so its not too much of an issue to use the alias, but for for others, office, sports etc, are roles shared by a number of individuals. Even for individual roles, there will be some sharing of mailbox whilst individuals are for instance absent. I am looking for best practice on how to organise this. Ideally I would like each individual to have their own personal email address, and, based on roles (I have security groups set up for this), access to a role based email address. This would also apply to bursar and headmaster etc where the individual will have both a personal email address and their role. This is my first experience of exchange server. Got a big thick book and internet but nothing specific. Whilst I realise that mailboxes can be shared within Outlook, this is not an ideal solution since they need to be set-up within Outlook rather than managed centrally within exchange. I have done some reading and it has been suggested that room or resource based mailboxes may be suitable. I have set a test one of these up to cover office but have found a few issues: Only able to send email from users account, not room account; room shows up as a room in calendar - would like to disable this. In addition, being unable to test receipt of emails on my test network, I am not 100% sure whether a room or resource mailbox able to receive external emails or not. Many thanks Ian

Quick question - has anyone ever managed to change the periods in the Outlook Calander to match their school periods and remove the hourly segments? I have been told both that it is possible and that it is not possible, but I have never found anyone who has followed through with it. It would be brilliant if it can be done so I can make an old booking program obsolete and use resources within Exchange.

Hi everyone Some of our admin staff use Outlook calendars to keep track of site bookings (such as use of drama rooms, evening concerts, etc). It would be very useful to be able to set recurring appointments up (e.g. timetabled lessons) so that they repeat but skip weeks such as half term. With a two week timetable, we can set 'repeat every two weeks', but this gets skewed by one week when half term occurs. Is there any way of setting an exclusion on the recurrence, such that it will 'miss out' one (or more) week/s? Thanks! Stephen

Hi, I've setup about 12 resource calendars in exchange 2007 and all have been setup as default i haven't made an extra changes to them. When trying to "Open a shared Calendar" in outlook some of them allow me to open them and add appointments (which i dont want to do) and some ask me to "Ask permission" (which i do want it to do). I've then logged onto that mailbox account and fired up outlook and changed the permissions on the calendar to Default "Reviewer" and HR to "Author". Although making this change people can still add diary events without permission. can someone divert me in the right direction? Thank you kindly ohh and Merry Christmas.!!!

I'm trying to set up Outlook 2010 with Google Apps IMAP servers using .prf files. I'm intending to put them in HKCU\RunOnce. While testing, when I launch Outlook with the /importprf switch, it seems to configure the account (i.e. no prompt) but then it says "Send/Receive Error" in the status-bar. As there is no way to include a password in the .prf configuration file, it should be prompting me at this point. Hitting send and receive again or starting Outlook normally also don't prompt for the password. When I go into Account Settings/Change Account, the password box is blank and the Remember Password check-box is ticked. If I enter the password here, everything works fine. In order to try force it to prompt for the password, in Group Policy, I enabled "Disable 'Remember Password' for Internet e-mail accounts" and "Prevent saving credentials for Basic Authentication policy". This resulted in the password box and Remember Password check-box being greyed out, but when setting up the profile from scratch there was still no change. The .prf file was created using the Office Customization Tool so it should be ok! I also tested this on two different Outlook 2010 installations, one retail and one Professional. I've uploaded the .prf file for inspection. I need a setting somewhere to force a password prompt! Any ideas appreciated.

I use this script modiefied by thescareface to set Outlook signature for all our users, but I want the Reply/forward signature to be something else then the standard signature.. In reply/forward I want the signature to only have: Best Reagards FullName LastName Title Company name While all new mails should have: Best Regards FullName LastName Title Company address P.o.box etc etc How can I modify the script to handle this feature? ###########################################################################" # # Our script # ###########################################################################" #Custom variables $CompanyName = 'ourcompany' $DomainName = 'our.domain.local' $SigSource = "\\our.domain.local\sig_files\$CompanyName" $ForceSignatureNew = '1' #When the signature are forced the signature are enforced as default signature for new messages the next time the script runs. 0 = no force, 1 = force $ForceSignatureReplyForward = '0' #When the signature are forced the signature are enforced as default signature for reply/forward messages the next time the script runs. 0 = no force, 1 = force #Environment variables $AppData=(Get-Item env:appdata).value $SigPath = '\Microsoft\Signatures' $LocalSignaturePath = $AppData+$SigPath $RemoteSignaturePathFull = $SigSource+'\'+$CompanyName+'.docx' #Get Active Directory information for current user $UserName = $env:username $Filter = "(&(objectCategory=User)(samAccountName=$UserName))" $Searcher = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher $Searcher.Filter = $Filter $ADUserPath = $Searcher.FindOne() $ADUser = $ADUserPath.GetDirectoryEntry() $ADFirstName = $ADUser.FirstName $ADLastName = $ADUser.LastName $ADTitle = $ADUser.title $ADhomephone = $ADUser.homephone $ADmobile = $ADUser.mobile #Setting registry information for the current user $CompanyRegPath = "HKCU:\Software\"+$CompanyName if (Test-Path $CompanyRegPath) {} else {New-Item -path "HKCU:\Software" -name $CompanyName} if (Test-Path $CompanyRegPath'\Outlook Signature Settings') {} else {New-Item -path $CompanyRegPath -name "Outlook Signature Settings"} $SigVersion = (gci $RemoteSignaturePathFull).LastWriteTime #When was the last time the signature was written $ForcedSignatureNew = (Get-ItemProperty $CompanyRegPath'\Outlook Signature Settings').ForcedSignatureNew $ForcedSignatureReplyForward = (Get-ItemProperty $CompanyRegPath'\Outlook Signature Settings').ForcedSignatureReplyForward $SignatureVersion = (Get-ItemProperty $CompanyRegPath'\Outlook Signature Settings').SignatureVersion Set-ItemProperty $CompanyRegPath'\Outlook Signature Settings' -name SignatureSourceFiles -Value $SigSource $SignatureSourceFiles = (Get-ItemProperty $CompanyRegPath'\Outlook Signature Settings').SignatureSourceFiles #Forcing signature for new messages if enabled if ($ForcedSignatureNew -eq '1') { #Set company signature as default for New messages $MSWord = New-Object -com word.application $EmailOptions = $MSWord.EmailOptions $EmailSignature = $EmailOptions.EmailSignature $EmailSignatureEntries = $EmailSignature.EmailSignatureEntries $EmailSignature.NewMessageSignature=$CompanyName $MSWord.Quit() } #Forcing signature for reply/forward messages if enabled if ($ForcedSignatureReplyForward -eq '1') { #Set company signature as default for Reply/Forward messages $MSWord = New-Object -com word.application $EmailOptions = $MSWord.EmailOptions $EmailSignature = $EmailOptions.EmailSignature $EmailSignatureEntries = $EmailSignature.EmailSignatureEntries $EmailSignature.ReplyMessageSignature=$CompanyName $MSWord.Quit() } #Copying signature sourcefiles and creating signature if signature-version are different from local version if ($SignatureVersion -eq $SigVersion){} else { #Copy signature templates from domain to local Signature-folder Copy-Item "$SignatureSourceFiles\*" $LocalSignaturePath -Recurse -Force $ReplaceAll = 2 $FindContinue = 1 $MatchCase = $True $MatchWholeWord = $Talse $MatchWildcards = $False $MatchSoundsLike = $False $MatchAllWordForms = $False $Forward = $True $Wrap = $FindContinue $Format = $False #Insert variables from Active Directory to rtf signature-file $MSWord = New-Object -com word.application $fullPath = $LocalSignaturePath+'\'+$CompanyName+'.docx' $MSWord.Documents.Open($fullPath) $FindText = "FirstName" $ReplaceText = $ADFirstName.ToString() $MSWord.Selection.Find.Execute($FindText, $MatchCase, $MatchWholeWord, $MatchWildcards, $MatchSoundsLike, $MatchAllWordForms, $Forward, $Wrap, $Format, $ReplaceText, $ReplaceAll ) $FindText = "LastName" $ReplaceText = $ADLastName.ToString() $MSWord.Selection.Find.Execute($FindText, $MatchCase, $MatchWholeWord, $MatchWildcards, $MatchSoundsLike, $MatchAllWordForms, $Forward, $Wrap, $Format, $ReplaceText, $ReplaceAll ) $FindText = "Title" $ReplaceText = $ADTitle.ToString() $MSWord.Selection.Find.Execute($FindText, $MatchCase, $MatchWholeWord, $MatchWildcards, $MatchSoundsLike, $MatchAllWordForms, $Forward, $Wrap, $Format, $ReplaceText, $ReplaceAll ) $FindText = "homephone" $ReplaceText = $ADhomephone.ToString() $MSWord.Selection.Find.Execute($FindText, $MatchCase, $MatchWholeWord, $MatchWildcards, $MatchSoundsLike, $MatchAllWordForms, $Forward, $Wrap, $Format, $ReplaceText, $ReplaceAll ) $FindText = "svgmobile" $ReplaceText = $ADmobile.ToString() $MSWord.Selection.Find.Execute($FindText, $MatchCase, $MatchWholeWord, $MatchWildcards, $MatchSoundsLike, $MatchAllWordForms, $Forward, $Wrap, $Format, $ReplaceText, $ReplaceAll ) $saveFormat = [Enum]::Parse([Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdSaveFormat], "wdFormatHTML"); $path = $LocalSignaturePath+'\'+$CompanyName+".htm" $MSWord.ActiveDocument.saveas([ref]$path, [ref]$saveFormat) $saveFormat = [Enum]::Parse([Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdSaveFormat], "wdFormatRTF"); $path = $LocalSignaturePath+'\'+$CompanyName+".rtf" $MSWord.ActiveDocument.SaveAs([ref] $path, [ref]$saveFormat) $saveFormat = [Enum]::Parse([Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdSaveFormat], "wdFormatText"); $path = $LocalSignaturePath+'\'+$CompanyName+".txt" $MSWord.ActiveDocument.SaveAs([ref] $path, [ref]$SaveFormat) $MSWord.ActiveDocument.Close() $MSWord.Quit() } #Stamp registry-values for Outlook Signature Settings if they doesn`t match the initial script variables. Note that these will apply after the second script run when changes are made in the "Custom variables"-section. if ($ForcedSignatureNew -eq $ForceSignatureNew){} else {Set-ItemProperty $CompanyRegPath'\Outlook Signature Settings' -name ForcedSignatureNew -Value $ForceSignatureNew} if ($ForcedSignatureReplyForward -eq $ForceSignatureReplyForward){} else {Set-ItemProperty $CompanyRegPath'\Outlook Signature Settings' -name ForcedSignatureReplyForward -Value $ForceSignatureReplyForward} if ($SignatureVersion -eq $SigVersion){} else {Set-ItemProperty $CompanyRegPath'\Outlook Signature Settings' -name SignatureVersion -Value $SigVersion}

I've been playing with setting up Outlook as an Exchange client, not pop/imap with EMBC's exchange server, and sharing inboxes and calendars for the admin teams You can't view another user's calendar unless Delegate is enabled, which won't enable unless Error message when you try to add a delegate in Outlook 2003: "The Delegates settings were not saved correctly" is followed, which doesn't allow send-on-behalf-of. Apparently due to not having write permission to the AD global catalog. Having to enter accounts\username and the password every time you start Outlook is really annoying, seems to be a side effect of forcing Basic Authentication, any hack around this? Don't know if this is just a Microsoft problem, but is there any way to add a user to all email folders in a mailbox?, seems like I have to add them one at a time for them to appear automatically. Is there a way to connect phones etc to the exchange server?