Outlook signature path

shady · 7 Jan 2009 at 23:55

Is there a way to change the path to the dignature files in Outlook 2007?

swinnie · 8 Jan 2009 at 12:05

Don't you just enter the signature into the box? And it's stored under the userprofile?

shady · 8 Jan 2009 at 12:32

yeah, but i want to save the signature file centrally, so i can point outlook to it on each PC. I don't want to have to edit each one if I make a change.

Seaniboy · 8 Jan 2009 at 14:58

Do you mean more of the email footer? i.e email confidentiality statement etc...

If so, you want to use something like GFI

Nanobot · 8 Jan 2009 at 15:20

If it is for work, then you need to specify a user 'roaming' profile path to a network share and then that way, your autosignature will travel with you.

shady · 11 Jan 2009 at 23:26

it is for my own home/business network, can i set a roaming profile path using hosted exchange?

IAmATeaf · 12 Jan 2009 at 10:42

Signatures are in the users profile folder in .\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures

The only reference to the signature within the registry is just the name of the signature file, so relocating them can only be done if the users profile is redirected or bits of the users profile is redirected via group policies maybe?

Nanobot · 12 Jan 2009 at 14:52

If you have a domain controller in your home/business, then on that domain you will have an account in your user admininstration tool. That will have a user profile path that will store your roaming profile.
One thing to take note - when you set up your Outlook profile, look in the Mail applet in Control Panel and see what your Outlook Profile is called. Usually it is called Outlook by default. If you want this to work properly if you have more than one user in the family/business is to have unique outlook profile names so not everyone has a profile called 'Outlook'.
Cant put my finger on the article but I remember reading it due to lots of outlook/profile related issues for users and this seemed to sort it.

.james · 25 Aug 2010 at 06:02

I used a symlink to solve this. A softlink works nicely. If you have a signatures folder already, then rename it & copy the contents to where you want them. (A folder cannot exist with the samename as the softlink.)

Code:

 mklink /d C:\users\{username}\appdata\roaming\microsoft\signatures h:\user\{username}\signature