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Modifying Outlook profiles in Outlook 2010 with VBS and Powershell

Outlook profiles can present somewhat of a challenge to any mail administrator regardless of the size of the mail system. One way of looking at Outlook profiles is that they are just a whole collection of registry settings on a machine which is true but the number and compelxity of structures involved means that if you want to write a script that will modify a particular profile for a particular user its not just as simple as modifying a single registry key. In previous versions of Outlook you could generally rely on the GUID "13dbb0c8aa05101a9bb000aa002fc45a" to locate the key where the values for the Exchange settings are located but if you have done any work with Outlook 2010 on windows 7 you will generally find this is nolonger the case and its now more reliable to enumerate all the keys under a particular profile and find a particular setting which will indicate this particular key has the values for the Exchange Setting you want to modify. The one thing that computers a...
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