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Title: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: NiX on September 06, 2012, 08:28:18 AM The communications manager at my new company bumped into me in the hallway. Knowing that I'm in the HR systems department he asked if it was possible to standardize Outlook signatures based on the HR data. It's not because it's messy. But, our SharePoint is integrated with Active Directory and has all the information needed for the signatures. Is it possible to have SharePoint integrate with Outlook in a way that would allow automatic signature creation when a user opens Outlook? Or something like that.
Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: Minvaren on September 06, 2012, 08:32:36 AM If the info is in Active Directory, there's a few packages for Exchange that will auto-populate users' signatures. Think it also takes a Group Policy tweak (via Office Resource Kit) to keep the users from using their own existing signatures, though.
(pokes at Lantyssa for more details, as she's done this before) Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: Baldrake on September 06, 2012, 08:54:23 AM Make sure you include a cute animated gif in every signature. Good choices are a cartoon cat or a bear cub. And a religious homily. People like that kind of thing.
Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: NiX on September 06, 2012, 09:28:22 AM Make sure you include a cute animated gif in every signature. Good choices are a cartoon cat or a bear cub. And a religious homily. People like that kind of thing. I think the communications manager would punch me. Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: Ingmar on September 06, 2012, 09:31:08 AM Behold:
http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/Windows-Scripting/Generating-Outlook-Signatures-Based-on-Active-Directory-Information/ Note this is pulling from AD directly, not SharePoint, but if all the SharePoint information is propagated into AD you shouldn't need to touch it directly. Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: schild on September 06, 2012, 09:34:15 AM For nearly a year at my last job, whenever they announced what was being catered for lunch I would reply all with a 4-panel CSI comic making a terrible pun (this was 2009-2010, don't judge me, that shit was funny back then). Everything would've been fine if the most unfunny magoo jackass in the office didn't think it was annoying. I think I still have some somewhere. If I dig them up I think I might start mailing them to him around noon every day.
Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: Ironwood on September 06, 2012, 09:41:14 AM Uh, ok.
Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: schild on September 06, 2012, 10:17:00 AM It was clearly a response to Baldrake.
Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: Ironwood on September 06, 2012, 10:18:18 AM Ah. Ok.
Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: Lantyssa on September 07, 2012, 08:33:43 AM What version of Outlook, Nix? 2010 is supposed to have the feature natively. 2003 we had to go with a third-party solution. Later versions are supposed to have work-arounds.
Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: MisterNoisy on September 07, 2012, 02:35:32 PM Make sure you include a cute animated gif in every signature. Good choices are a cartoon cat or a bear cub. And a religious homily. People like that kind of thing. I think the communications manager would punch me. I kinda like your communication manager. Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: Cheddar on September 07, 2012, 07:44:59 PM Sharepoint?
Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: Yegolev on September 07, 2012, 08:33:53 PM It's the Cloud version of Notepad.
Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: Riggswolfe on September 09, 2012, 09:19:17 PM Sharepoint? It's MS's intranet solution. Lots of companies are using it now and it's becoming quite valuable to know Sharepoint. Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: Ingmar on September 10, 2012, 02:29:54 AM In 5 years it will be dead tech, IMO. I mean, it will be alive and well, but only in Microsoft's cloud offering, where they run it instead of you.
Title: Re: Using SharePoint to populate Outlook signatures Post by: Teleku on October 19, 2012, 09:20:51 AM Sharepoint? It's MS's intranet solution. Lots of companies are using it now and it's becoming quite valuable to know Sharepoint. |