How to change the default message delivery location in Outlook 2002 to the user's Exchange Server with the Custom Maintenance Wizard (307868)

SUMMARY

You can use the Custom Maintenance Wizard to update Microsoft Outlook profile information after you have deployed Outlook. To change a user's default delivery location for messages from a personal folders (.pst) file to the Microsoft Exchange Server, you can use the Custom Maintenance Wizard to reconfigure Microsoft Exchange connections. This article describes how you can change the default message delivery location in Outlook 2002 to a user's Exchange Server by using the Custom Maintenance Wizard.

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Update the Users' Outlook Profiles with the Custom Maintenance Wizard

To use the Custom Maintenance Wizard to update your users' Outlook profiles, you must copy the Custom Maintenance Wizard (the Maintwiz.exe file) to the administrative installation point. Instructions for this task are included in the Help file that is provided with the program.

NOTE: The Custom Installation Wizard uses a transform to specify customizations through the Setup.exe file. Whereas, the Custom Maintenance Wizard is run from and applies a customized configuration maintenance file to the users' computers.

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Change the Default Message Delivery Location to Users' Exchange Server

Follow these steps to change the default message delivery location:

1. On the Outlook: Customize Default Profile page, in the Custom Maintenance Wizard, click Modify Profile, and then click Next.
2. On the Outlook: Specify Exchange Settings page, click Configure an Exchange Server connection.
3. In the Exchange Server box, enter a server name, and then click Next. This step ensures that both new and existing Outlook users have the appropriate configuration.
4. On the Outlook: Add Accounts page, click Customize additional Outlook profile and account information.
5. From the Deliver new mail to the following location drop-down menu, click Exchange Server.
6. Save the Custom Maintenance Wizard file, and then deploy it to your users.

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Deploy the Update Users' Outlook Profiles

After you create the Custom Maintenance Wizard maintenance file, deploy it to your users to update their Outlook profiles. To do this:

1. Verify that the Custom Maintenance Wizard executable files and the configuration maintenance file that you are deploying are available to the users on the administrative installation point (or any file server to which users can gain access).
2. Provide a command line, such as the following:

   Â Â Â \\share\office\Maintwiz updateprof.cmw /cq

   The /c option ensures that the changes are "committed."
   
   The /q option prevents dialogs from being presented to the users during the update.
   
   Another option for updating users' Outlook profiles is to edit an existing Outlook profile file (PRF file), and distribute the file to users. When Outlook imports the file on a user's computer, the user's profile is updated with the new settings that you have specified.

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