We just rolled out Office 2010 to our pilot group & we are finding that users are seeing 2 profiles for Outlook, there own profile & a default outlook profile. As long as this default outlook profile exists my users have trouble sending email, things just pile up in the Outbox. If we delete the default outlook profile mail flow just fine.

I am looking for a way to delete the default outlook profile via a script since I have over 5000 users once this rolls out to my folks.   Powershell would be my prefered method if possible.

TIA.

Hi,

Profiles can be named darn near anything by users. They're all in the same place in the registry, though:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles

You can write a VBS (or whatever language you prefer) to use WMI to access the registry and remove what you like. But you'll have to wade through the various keys looking for the identity of the old server before you'll feel safe nuking a profile.

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• Marked as answer by Sally Tang Wednesday, October 27, 2010 8:19 AM

Hi,

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Hey guys I know this is old and answered, but if you slide this PS Script into Group Policy, under logon scripts it will run just once for every user, no matter what device they are on.

HI,

 I have deploy new  Outlook Account via PRF and set to Append. Now i have a issue with adding shared mailboxes and removing the old email account ( Primary Account)

So with this bit harder to remove the primary account. is there way to delete the Primary account through the 

script and rename the profile?

As

Hey guys I know this is old and answered, but if you slide this PS Script into Group Policy, under logon scripts it will run just once for every user, no matter what device they are on.

Start-Sleep -s 10

$User = [Environment]::UserName
$path = "C:\Outlook\" + "$User"
$ClearOutlook = "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles"
If(-not(Test-Path -Path $path))
  {
   del $ClearOutlook -force -Recurse
   New-Item -Path $path -type directory