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You could have every one open their Excel and go to : File--&gt;Options--&gt;General--<wbr />&gt; and then enter their individual user names in the box labeled user name. This way you can always know who has a file locked. 
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You could have every one open their Excel and go to : File-->Options-->General--> and then enter their individual user names in the box labeled user name. This way you can always know who has a file locked.

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Yeah but then the user is responsible for doing that on any machine they log on. I want it automatic. 
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Yeah but then the user is responsible for doing that on any machine they log on. I want it automatic.

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Run from command line &gt;set username<br />
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I believe the value would be something Office has in the registry which you could modify
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Run from command line >set username

I believe the value would be something Office has in the registry which you could modify

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I have a solution in mind that is automatic, but it's ugly. I'll wait and see if ^^ works for you.
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I have a solution in mind that is automatic, but it's ugly. I'll wait and see if ^^ works for you.

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<a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/office2007deployment/thread/621b3142-d096-4da5-a882-ce216ae8e98c" rel="ugc nofollow">http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/office2007deployment/thread/621b3142-d096-4da5-a882-ce216ae8e98c</a><br />
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ok so i found that article... i did it on my pc from command prompt and it worked great. How do i deploy this on gpo ? 
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/office2007deployment/thread/621b3142-d096-4da5-a882-ce216ae8e98c [http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/office2007deployment/thread/621b3142-d096-4da5-a882-ce216ae8e98c]


ok so i found that article... i did it on my pc from command prompt and it worked great. How do i deploy this on gpo ?

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Hey Everyone,<br />
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&nbsp;Is their anyway i can have a logon script on my domain to pull the Windows Users log on name so when they open a shared Excel workbook file and you go to see who is logged on it will automatically put the users name in their. Right now it just says Windows User. <br />
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Hey Everyone,

 Is their anyway i can have a logon script on my domain to pull the Windows Users log on name so when they open a shared Excel workbook file and you go to see who is logged on it will automatically put the users name in their. Right now it just says Windows User. 



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