Deploy Default Font Settings with Outlook 2010 SP2

Hi team

Until Office 2010 SP1 it was possible to deploy a registry key to set the default fonts in Outlook. This was the following key:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\MailSettings\...

This keys remained after a user logged in the first time to a computer resp. after the user started Outlook the first time.

Now with installed SP2, this keys are deleted after the first start of Outlook and a  REG_EXPAND_SZ string called "Template" is created.

Is this issue known and whats the solution to deploy default fonts in Outlook 2010 SP2.

Regards,

Stephen

April 21st, 2015 5:00am

Hi,

Please add the registry key manually after the user logged in the first time, does this registry key still takes effect then? If yes, try to deploy this registry key via OCT to check the result.

For this kind of issue, one method I suggest is to deploy a NormalEmail.dotm template to users, in which the default font has been configured. For example, put it on a network shared location, use a startup script to remove the existing template on the user's client, then copy the shared template to each user's local path. The location should be: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates.

Regards,

Melon Chen

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April 21st, 2015 10:39pm

Hi,

1. Put these files in C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates (in Windows 7). In other Windows distribution seek in Documents and Settings, Application Data, and without Roaming in path.

2. Load default user hive in regedit on HKU/<hive>.Hive is in C:\Users\Default\ntuser.dat(hidden).

3. Set in HKU/[your hive name]/Software/Microsoft/Office/[11.0|12.0|14.0]/Word/Options name: GlobalDoName, value: customNormal.dotm, type: REG_SZ if you have for MS Word 2010.

4. Unload the hive.

Thanks and regards


April 22nd, 2015 1:58am

Hi,

Just checking in to see if the information was helpful. Please let us know if you would like further assistance.

Regards,

Melon Chen

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April 27th, 2015 12:39am

Hi,

I'm marking the reply as answer as there has been no update for a couple of days.

If you come back to find it doesn't work for you, please reply to us and unmark the answer.

Regards,

Melon Chen

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April 29th, 2015 9:59pm

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