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Ray_handels
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Use FlexConfig with Outlook

Hey,

Maybe someone can shed some light on this matter.

We are using FlexConfig for UEM so that users can have settings in both RDSH and VDI while startign and stopping Outlook and we don;t have the logon penalty of i9mporting the zip file of Outlook during logon. We are also using profile cleanup within UEM so we can restore settings if it fails. This is due to the writable that we are also using.

The issue that we are seeing now is when a user tries to create a new profile he or she needs to close Outlook effectively deleting the Outlook settings from the VDI machine. If he then goes to the Control Panel and opens up the Mail item he cannot see any profiles (as there are stored within the flexconfig of Outlook).

Is there any way to trigger the Outlook flexconfig when opening the Mail configuration within the control panel? You cannot add a CPL as a target of when flexconfig should kick in. Anyone else has a nifty solution that we could try?

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DEMdev
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Hi Ray_handels,

Nothing nifty, I'm afraid... You could create a tiny wrapper executable that launches the Mail control panel, and configure that as another DirectFlex executable on your config file. And get your users to launch your executable instead of the control panel, of course 🙂

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DEMdev
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Hi Ray_handels,

Nothing nifty, I'm afraid... You could create a tiny wrapper executable that launches the Mail control panel, and configure that as another DirectFlex executable on your config file. And get your users to launch your executable instead of the control panel, of course 🙂

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Ray_handels
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hey UEMdev

This was the only option we thought of as well so I guess we'll be importing and exporting the information on logon and logoff. It's what it is..

It does work as intended.. We just wanted to create some sort of trick.... Didn't work unfortunately