XP, Outlook, profiles

[BADSBRD]

I need some help. I'm trying to develope an image for our new XP Pro machines. These machines all will have Outlook on them, but will be accessed by many different users. Too many to setup their Outlook accounts manually.

I found some software that will help with this, but there is one problem. Our domain usernames are numerical, don't ask me why. Is there any other way to get their names into Outlook, other than the %username% variable?

I've noticed that XP puts my full name in the start menu, even though I sign in with the numerical login....how does XP grab that?????

Thanks,

Rick

 

[bcastner]

You can use a windows API to obtain the information:

. VB example

http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/index.html?code/network/netusergetinfo.htm

. WSH

'Get the users Full Name from SAM and extract Last Name and First Name
'We assume that everything to the left of the last name is the first name
'======================
On Error Resume Next
'
Set objNetwork=Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Network&quot
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("regtool.tob&quot

strDomain=objNetwork.UserDomain
strUser=objNetwork.UserName
strADSPath="WinNT://"& strDomain & "/" & strUser
Set objADS=GetObject(strADSPath)
strFullName=objADS.FullName
intFullNameLength=Len(strFullName)
'
For n=intFullNameLength to 1 step -1
If Mid(strFullName,n,1) = " " Then
strLastName=Mid(strFullName,n+1,intFullNameLength-n)
strFirstName=Mid(strFullName,1,n)
n=1
End If
Next
'

 

[BADSBRD]

I'm not a very good VB person. I've only done a VB project once, and that was 4 years ago. Can I reference a VB variable from Outlook, or an Outlook profile?

Rick