The Department of Surgery is in the midst of adopting UW Exchange as our department-wide calendaring/email platform (moving away from a hybrid approach of an internal Exchange server and Now Up To Date calendaring). As part of the adoption process, we are rolling out Office 2007 and 2008 to all of our users. I'll use Apple Remote Desktop to remove Office 2004 and push out 2008 to my Mac users, but manually setting up Exchange accounts for all of them is not my idea of fun.
So, I adapted an applescript1 to automate the process. It basically leaves any existing account such as Deskmail alone, and creates an Exchange account with all the UW Exchange server and user account info pre-populated (sans password). My modified applescript2 can be downloaded and used by other University of Washington faculty, staff and students (requires UWNetID). Supplied "as is" with no warranty expressed or implied- use at your own risk.
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1. Original script by William M. Smith
2. File updated May 20, 2008
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