Manage Email Signatures centrally from your Desktop - For All Users

PaulD · Quite a regular Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 16

When running the command, I get:

\\server\share\signowa.exe -v
Using the url: https://mail.ourdomain.org/exchange/
An OLE DB Provider was not specified in the ConnectionString. An example would be, 'Provider=SQLOLEDB;'.

However, it is set in the registry key settingsdatabase:

"Settingsdatabase"="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=\\\\server\share\v5.5-settings.mdb"

PaulD · Quite a regular Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 16

OK, I noticed I had single backslashes but it didn't change the outcome when I fixed it.

PaulD · Quite a regular Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 16

Please change this so it does not require storing a username/password in clear text.

Jesper Frier · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:55 am Post subject:

Please try and change...

PaulD · Quite a regular Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 16

No. As I said, I noticed the single slashes and corrected them with no change in results. The parser isn't getting beyond the OLEDB provider.

Jesper Frier · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:37 pm Post subject:

I did read your post ... but I changed the name of your settings DB too:

v5_5-settings.mdb (without a full stop in the name)
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PaulD · Quite a regular Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 16

Ah, sorry, I missed that. I will give it a try.

PaulD · Quite a regular Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 16

Hi Jesper, no change:
"Settingsdatabase"="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=\\\\server\\share\\v5_5-settings.mdb"

Z:\>signowa -v
Using the url: https://mail.craftandhobby.org/exchange/
An OLE DB Provider was not specified in the ConnectionString. An example would be, 'Provider=SQLOLEDB;'.

Z:\>

Bjarne Mess · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:16 pm Post subject:

Have you created the registry entries the right place? Where have you create the entries?

Thanks.

PaulD · Quite a regular Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 16

I used signOWA.reg to create the keys, they were created in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Office add-on\eMailSignature

PaulD · Quite a regular Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 16

Any further ideas on this gentlemen?

Thanks,

Jesper Frier

Need more info ... Confused

Could you please post the content of signOWA.reg?
Please post UNC-path to settings.mdb?
Where is signOWA.reg installed?
Where is signOWA.exe executed?
Where is OA.SignOWA.dll located?
Which permissions do you have on the share with settings.mdb?

Deploying eMailSignature to OWA
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PaulD · Quite a regular Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 16

OK, so what I was doing was:
1) I executed signOWA.reg to create the registry entries.
2) I edited those keys directly in regedit.

The result was that there were extra characters included when I exported the keys, although they looked correct in regedit.

So, what I had to do is to edit the exported .reg file to the desired settings and rerun that. This correctly imported the values and I was able to successfully run signOWA.exe.

I would still appreciate it if we didn't have to enter a username/password into the registry in clear text.

Thanks for all your help Jesper!

Regards,
Paul