Manage Email Signatures centrally from your Desktop - For All Users

peter

If you are running emailSignature in a domain, you will commonly find it reporting an error when you login as a user who has not setup a profile on the local computer, for example the domain administrator account.

This causes a lengthy delay in executing the logon script as sign.exe is fighting to setup a signature in a non-existant profile.

To fix this, i implemented some vbscript to check for a profile before running sign.exe to ensure that signatures were only installed once a valid profile has been setup

Here is the code

on error resume next

Set WSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
dim strProfile

strProfile = ""
RegKey = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion \Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\"

strProfile = WSHShell.RegRead (regkey & "DefaultProfile")

if strProfile <> "" then
WSHShell.Run "<sign.exe parameters>"
end if

just change the part in bold to your location of sign.exe and its database parameter
(eg. \\adserver\netlogon\sign.exe Provider=sqloledb;Data Source=sqlserver\db;Initial Catalog=emailSignatures;User ID=emailsig;Password=emailsig;)
and you should be good to go.

Jesper Frier

Hey Peter,

Great tip which we will reward Yes

You can have a module licensed for FREE!
Please send me a private message (or email) with your prefered module, and I will forward your new license key.

Thanks again
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robert doku · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:55 am Post subject:

I will like to thank Peter too as it also ends our seach a vbscript for the batch process. (It deserves a place in the official documentation!) I assume it supports both our currently supported Windows flavours (2000 and XP).

If you have more than one logon servers in your domain, I will suggest using the line