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Old April 14th 03, 12:34 AM
Siegfried Weber [MVP]
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Default Updating IM contact list with login script

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 he
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?



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