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#Create outlook email signature script with pictures professional#
If it doesn’t do what you need then just delete it and have a look at a professional ($$$) product. You should be able to have my script up and running within your TEST environment within 30 minutes, depending on your needs. There are also plenty of 3rd party products that can do the same thing and much more besides but this script does everything I need and apart from my time has cost me nothing. That’s seems to be the trade off to avoid an extremely complicated script for generating well formatted HTML and RTF files. The following link is to a script that does generate the raw files but formatting is limited slightly. The main reason I have avoided that approach is to reduce the execution time to a minimum and also reduced resource overhead in Citrix / terminal server environments. docx file to your server under the following path domainNETLOGONsigfilesCompanyNameCompanyName.docx. There are plenty of other scripts out there but the main difference with this script is it’s completely self contained and does not “spawn” any other application instance, such as Word or Outlook to generate the signature files. Create a CompanyName.docx file with your signature (Use the following keywords: DisplayName, Title, Email) Ensure these fields are filled out for all users in Active Directory Users and Computers.
There is also an optional environmental print message which can easily be turned on or off.
#Create outlook email signature script with pictures how to#
Details on how to change the company logo are in another post. For debugging any changes you make the script also creates a logfile in the users %APPDATA% folder.Īs you can see in the examples above the template is split into three columns and also has a company logo. If you want to radically change the layout then you’ll have to do some additional tweaking within the script to ensure you get the correct layout and formatting. ĭetails on modifying the template files to suit your environment can be found in another post. The script will also configure Outlook if a valid email account can be found for the user.Īn overview of the make up of an Outlook Signature can be found in another post. This information is combined with template files to produce the final Outlook Signature. Once the required account properties have been collected by the script some validation and formatting is applied to ensure the information looks correct. When the script runs at logon time it collects details from the current users active directory account properties (attributes), example below. The script is reasonably well commented (at least I think it is?) but I though it might also be a good idea to cover off how it works with a few posts on this blog.
#Create outlook email signature script with pictures download#
Download a compressed copy of the script and template files here This script is free to anyone and comes with the usual disclaimers about zero liability and use at your own risk. The script is written in vbscript and has been tested on a combination of Below you can see a sample of the Outlook signature it creates. This is useful for an organisation that wants to ensure they have a consistent look to their users Outlook signatures, I’m making this script freely available to do with as you please. I have created a script that will automatically create a users Outlook signature file.