DS Client 6

 

 

The client application "DynamicSignature.exe" is a small application that is used to render the signatures on the PCs when the users log on to your network through a GPO or by some other mean.

 

It is detached from the DS Manager and works as a standalone application. In fact you can use it without the DS Manager application. You can create templates with other editor like Dreamweaver and WordPad, and edit the configuration files with Notepad, and then make your own bat files or VB-scripts.

 

Event Chain

The DS Client application goes through a series of actions to create the final personalized signatures, as follows.

 

1.Client is called to run on the PC (Via GPO or login script)

2.It reads the configuration parameter handed to it (I:/signaturename.ini)

3.Read the location of the template and fetch it

4.Detects the user logged into the PC, and looks up all relevant contact information for that specific user in AD

5.Based on the Office-location of the user it determines address, and fetches information from AD.
If none is present, it looks up the same information from the DSHQ instead.

6.Merges all contact information into the templates

7.Merges campaign into campaign mark-up location

8.Looks for conditional element, and removes all parts of the templates as designated by iflabels (<ifMob></ifMob>)

9.Copies new personalized signatures to Outlook folder including all relevant images

10.Makes the signature mandatory in Outlook if setting is present.