Re: Similar User Names - OWA Access

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Mark Arnold [MVP] (mark_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:38:39 +0000

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:48:20 -0800, "Vic" <vic@nospam.com> wrote:

>I have a problem with a couple users login on to OWA 2003. The 2 users have
>same first and last name (ex. John Doe), so one user logs on as John and the
>other as JohnD. This works just fine when logging on to our 2003 domain. I
>have given both users access to OWA and they keep getting an access denied
>error when they try to log on. I encountered this same issue a pretty long
>time ago in Exchange 5.5 and the resolution was to change the login name of
>one of the accounts (somehow I figured that out). Well I tried this out
>again and the issue was solved.
>
>Now comes the tricky part. Try to find any documentation or articles about
>this issue on Microsofts Support site and you come up empty handed. I need
>to at least find an article number so I can present to the end users as a
>know issue.
>
>If anyone has encountered the same issue and found some sort of
>documentation, can you please share?
>
>TIA
>Vic
>

I can see this in 5.5 because you entered the alias first (at the big
orange screen) and then the logon. In 2003 you just get the popup
where you enter the domain\user and password logon.
A cunning plan would be to switch to Form Based Authentication and
then the users could use their UPN, which is probably the same as
their email address to logon, thus whisting away the problem and
giving the users a nicer interface at the same time.

One thing to double check though in any case is to make sure the alias
is actually different for the two users.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Auditing Logon Events
    ... > I have just been trying to set up auditing on my 2k DC to log every time a ... > user logs onto the system. ... Account logon events will log every request to the DC for authentication; ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
  • Re: Multiple 538 and 540 IDs in 2003 server Security Events Log?
    ... During every domain logon from a workstation, ... In Vista we've added share access auditing and RPC auditing so that you can ... you can generate logon events but suppress logoff events, ... ID's appear again several times when the user logs off. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.security)
  • Re: Remote Registry
    ... The HKCU key is a child or pseudo hive created when the user logs on. ... You will either have to load each one of these hives individually to make the changes, not a viable option for a large network with many users. ... An easy way would be to have the changes done through the logon mechanism, have a script or batch file do the changes for the users as they logon. ... When i try to connect to a remote registry through regedit.exe and after ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.registry)
  • Re: winLogon
    ... a user logs into Windows. ... Events include logon, logoff, startup, shutdown, ... > I read that WinLogon triggers notification events, include logon, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)