Siegfried Weber [MVP]
April 14th 03, 12:34 AM
You could write a WSH script to retrieve the list of IM enabled users from
Active Directory and put them into the registry. As you already figured out
Exchange IM contacts are stored in clear text (as opposed to the MSN
Messenger local contact cache which holds binary data) and you should be
able to read/write to this path using WSH. As for sample scripts how to use
ADSI to access Active Directory, start here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/
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"Kevin" > wrote in message:
>
> I have Windows2000 severs and Exchange 2000 hosting IM and
> would like to be able to update every user's Instant
> Messenger that is hosted on my Exchange server. I think
> the best way to do this would be in a login script, but I
> am unable to update every PC's registry since IM puts the
> user's name in the reg path under
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Mess enger\Pro
> files\http://servername.domain.com/instmsg/aliases/USER\Con
> tacts
>
> Any Ideas?
Active Directory and put them into the registry. As you already figured out
Exchange IM contacts are stored in clear text (as opposed to the MSN
Messenger local contact cache which holds binary data) and you should be
able to read/write to this path using WSH. As for sample scripts how to use
ADSI to access Active Directory, start here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/
--
<Cheers:Siegfried runat="server" />
Development Lead,
CDOLive LLC - The Microsoft Messaging and Collaboration Application
Experts http://www.cdolive.com
"Kevin" > wrote in message:
>
> I have Windows2000 severs and Exchange 2000 hosting IM and
> would like to be able to update every user's Instant
> Messenger that is hosted on my Exchange server. I think
> the best way to do this would be in a login script, but I
> am unable to update every PC's registry since IM puts the
> user's name in the reg path under
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Mess enger\Pro
> files\http://servername.domain.com/instmsg/aliases/USER\Con
> tacts
>
> Any Ideas?