Re: Users are being prompted for creditials

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From: Daniel Dooley [MSFT] (dandoo_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:06:42 -0500

When Outlook randomly prompts for credentials this is often because its
session was disconnected or Outlook was forced to fall back to another
protocol such as named pipes. A variety of topology issues can cause this
but it at least gives you a direction to look at. 

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"Tracy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:b23c01c499aa$7cc76970$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>I administrate a domain with an Exchange 2K server, and a
> DC running Win2K3.  Frequently I have different users
> that say outlook is prompting them for their password.  I
> look at the AD users and computers to confirm that the
> account hasn't expired, but all is as it should be.  This
> happens sporatically and to different users.  The
> workaround has been to simply reset the original p/w,
> which resolves the issue for the moment.  Any ideas?

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