I made a mistake...
A few months ago, I installed an Exchange 2013 server in my office. This would be my first Exchange installation since Exchange 2000, when things like autodiscover and Outlook Anywhere didn't exist. At the time of installation, I was not aware that Outlook 2007 clients, by virtue of being on a computer that is joined to the domain, would automatically find the Exchange server via autodiscover and automate the process of creating the Outlook profiles for my users. So, as a test I used the Microsoft Office Customization tool to customize the features of Outlook I thought I needed to. By this I mean I created a new profile named "Exchange" and told it to look for the server by name (in our case "EXCH01". I tested this installation on a couple computers and quickly found that it did not work, I would receive an error message stating that the Exchange server was unavailable. After some research, I found that I did not need to customize the Outlook profile settings because of the autodiscover feature. However, before I was able to remove those settings from the customized installation of Office, that installation package was used by one of my colleagues to install Office on approximately 30 computers. So, needless to say, on each of those computers, we had to manually go in to the control panel and delete the newly created "Exchange" profile, and create a new one that used the autodiscover feature. Not a big deal, right? It wasn't at first, because each user had their own computer and no changes were being made in our environment. Now, there are changes being made, and users are switching computers on what seems to be a weekly basis. With each switch to a new computer, a new windows user profile is created, and thus when opening Outlook for the first time the user will get prompted that the connection to the Exchange server is not available, and so I have to go in and manually delete the current one and create a new one again. So, I figured I'd uninstall the customized version of Office 2007 an reinstall the default one without customization. Didn't work. The profiles still exist on those computers. I've tried everything I can think of to get rid of those profiles, but I'm at a big brick wall now. Any advice on how to get these Office installations back to normal, or somehow remove those settings from the affected computers?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Frustrated Admin