We use a program called Desktop Authority 9.1 that is a fully featured kixstart based logon user profile customization tool. It does a full gamout of things like map drives, folder redirection, import registry edits, run silent application installers,
and of course create the Outlook profile.
There's no issues with this tool creating an outlook profile internally to mail.domain.com, and even detecting laptops and configuring it for outlook anywhere to webm.domain.com and cached mode.
Issue I'm having is trying to roll out Exchange 2013. This tool simply does not seem to create the mail profile. On a test computer I have the hosts file pointed to the new 2013 server from these names: webm, mail, autodiscover. At log
on I simply get an error "The name cannot be resolved. The name cannot be matched to a name in the address list." When you click OK you get a little confusing dialog box with the exchange server name: mail and the mailbox: windows
user ID.
So I tried to do this manually in the Mail (32-bit) control panel applet. It doesnt matter if I put in mail, mail.domain.com, webm, webm.domain.com, email (the netbios name of exchange 2013), etc.. I get the same error. I went into More settings> Connection > connect to microsoft exchange using HTTP and in the proxy settings I have webm.domain.com, connect SSL Only, only connect to proxy servers that have the name: msstd:webm.domain.com, and the rest is checked and NTLM Authentication is checked.
I simply CANNOT manually create an outlook profile at all. I can surely delete this one, start outlook, click next through the wizard taking all the default options and get Outlook configured that way (via Autodiscover service), but I need a way to
do it manually so I can have Desktop Authority do it manually. Why? Two major reasons:
1. If our end users are greeted with an Outlook startup wizard every time they go to a different computer, and have to click next through it, our help desk is going to be overwhelmed with "what is this outlook startup wizzard?" questions.
2. Desktop Authority also attaches additional mailboxes. We need the outlook profile passed through DA's scripting so different users departmental voice mailboxes are attached in their outlook. IE) Mailbox VM_FAX_Accounting is attached
to all of the accounting associates Outlook.