Changing the Username

All. Please accept my apologies for the lenght of this post.

A couple of years ago at work we created desktop images which had Office
XP on them. The problem with it is that the username being used is
incorrect for the logged-on user. It comes up as the username of the
person who created the Office install. When someone logs on for the
first time and runs Office each application is configured by Windows
Installer but the username on the Splash screen and Help/About isn't
changed to their username. This means that each document created in Word
for example, has the wrong username and using Review shows the wrong name.

In an attempt to resolve this issue I reimaged a machine today and
uninstalled Office before reinstalling it from AD (using an Admin
Install with an MST). The username didn't change so that approach is out.

I *think* the username is the one stored in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\UserInfo which
is stored as binary.

If that is they key we need to change, is it possible to just delete it
from each machine, and will Office recreate it with the correct key when
reinstalled from AD?

If not, how can we change this username without having to reimage 2000+
machines?


thanks for any help

à¸*ะไรà¸�็ตาม wrote:

I *think* the username is the one stored in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\UserInfo which
is stored as binary.

This is stored as hex and not binary ;-)

Don't know if this still works... but when you do the Administrative install
point, instead of having a persons name in the name file enter User (which
should on each profile change what you see on the Splash screen)...



"à¸*ะไรà¸�็ตาม" wrote:

All. Please accept my apologies for the lenght of this post.

A couple of years ago at work we created desktop images which had Office
XP on them. The problem with it is that the username being used is
incorrect for the logged-on user. It comes up as the username of the
person who created the Office install. When someone logs on for the
first time and runs Office each application is configured by Windows
Installer but the username on the Splash screen and Help/About isn't
changed to their username. This means that each document created in Word
for example, has the wrong username and using Review shows the wrong name.

In an attempt to resolve this issue I reimaged a machine today and
uninstalled Office before reinstalling it from AD (using an Admin
Install with an MST). The username didn't change so that approach is out.

I *think* the username is the one stored in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\UserInfo which
is stored as binary.

If that is they key we need to change, is it possible to just delete it
from each machine, and will Office recreate it with the correct key when
reinstalled from AD?

If not, how can we change this username without having to reimage 2000+
machines?


thanks for any help

Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default...us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...us;280546&FR=1


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"?????????" nobody@home wrote in message ...
All. Please accept my apologies for the lenght of this post.

A couple of years ago at work we created desktop images which had Office
XP on them. The problem with it is that the username being used is
incorrect for the logged-on user. It comes up as the username of the
person who created the Office install. When someone logs on for the
first time and runs Office each application is configured by Windows
Installer but the username on the Splash screen and Help/About isn't
changed to their username. This means that each document created in Word
for example, has the wrong username and using Review shows the wrong name.

In an attempt to resolve this issue I reimaged a machine today and
uninstalled Office before reinstalling it from AD (using an Admin
Install with an MST). The username didn't change so that approach is out.

I *think* the username is the one stored in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\UserInfo which
is stored as binary.

If that is they key we need to change, is it possible to just delete it
from each machine, and will Office recreate it with the correct key when
reinstalled from AD?

If not, how can we change this username without having to reimage 2000+
machines?


thanks for any help
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

Bob Buckland ?:-) wrote:
Hi ?????????,

The registry key can be changed,
http://support.microsoft.com/default...us;290528&FR=1
but the one you listed is for Office 2003 rather than Office XP.

You may be running into this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...us;280546&FR=1


Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again

Hi ?????????,
You can't check the date on a registry key but
you can place a dummy file or registry entry that
could be checked by the script (i.e. if == exist
don't run the script).

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"?????????" nobody@home wrote in message ...
Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/a...andtricks.mspx

Bob Buckland ?:-) wrote:
Hi ?????????,
You can't check the date on a registry key but
you can place a dummy file or registry entry that
could be checked by the script (i.e. if == exist
don't run the script).

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"?????????" nobody@home wrote in message ...
Thanks Bob.

I'm going to write a VB script to run for each user to get this changed.
Do you know how to get a VB script to only run if a certain registry
key is a certain value? Basically we don't want the Office user
information to change each time a user logs on. Once will be enough.

thanks again

Hi Bob

We managed to write a script which checks to see if the registry value
is the one we want to delete, and if it is the key is changed. If it
isn't it's left alone so the users don't have to see the small dialogue
box which pops up when you first start an application. The one with your
name and initials in it.


Change the xxx to be the username you want to delete. The wrapping in
the e-mail may cause some lines to be wrong.


start script


Set WshShell = Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

On error resume next
strValue =
WshShell.RegRead("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\1 0.0\Common\UserInfo\UserName")
if err.number 0 then

On error goto 0

'Wscript.Echo "Error reading Username"

wscript.Quit
end if
On Error Goto 0

ReDim charValues (ubound(strValue))

for i=0 to ubound(strValue)-2 step 2
charValues (i)=Chr(strValue(i))
next
charString = join(charValues,"")

'msgbox charString

'msgbox len(charString)

'if charString = "xxx" then

'**** check the case before use ****

if charString = "xxx" then

WshShell.RegDelete("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office \10.0\Common\UserInfo\UserInitials")
WshShell.RegDelete("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office \10.0\Common\UserInfo\UserName")

'Wscript.echo "Values deleted"

End if


/end script

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Neil