Re: Exchange Password

Hi Brandon,

Thank you for posing here. I appreciate Cris's input, here I would like to
provide other info on this issue.

According to your description, I understand that when you use VPN
connection to connect to the Exchange server, you are prompted for
authenticaiton in Outlook.

Technically speaking, whenever you open the mailbox on Exchange server, the
server requires authentication. If you are logging on from the same or
trusted domain, Outlook sends the current domain credentials automatically
to the server. If it passed the authentication, you can open the mailbox
directly. When you are logging on to Outlook from an untrusted domain or
workgroup, Outlook sends the local credentials up to three times in the
course of logging on to the Exchange server. If the Exchange server is also
a domain controller, Exchange will contact the directory service to
validate the credentials. Thus, if the local account uses the same password
with the domain account, the authentication will pass automatically.
However if the Exchange server is only a member server, the credentials
will not be passed to the directory service on the other server for
authentication. In this situation, the domain logon box pops up even though
the local account uses the same password with the domain account.

In this case, if your Exchange server at the main office is also a domain
controller, I suggest you set the password of the local account to be same
with the domain account and test this issue again.

Also, please Open Outlook and log on the mailbox, you may have to fill in
the username and password this time.
Select Tools/Email Accounts/View or change existing email accounts/exchange
mailbox/change.
In the account properties pane, click more settings, and then switch to
security tab
Clear all the checkboxes here, and then select "Kerberos/NTLM password
authentication"

Based on my research, if the clients are based on Windows XP or Windows
2003, we can follow the steps below to keep the password so that the
operating system can help us log on:
1. Click Start->Run, type "control userpasswords2" without quotes and then
press Enter.
2. On the Advanced tab, click Manage Passwords.
3. Click Add.
4. Type in the appropriate server name, user name (domain\username) and the
password that you use to open the mailbox.
5. Click OK twice.
6. Open Outlook then you won't be prompted for authentication.

Hope this helps, I look forward to your update.

Best Regards,

Chace Zhang (MSFT)

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| I'm using a VPN for numerous resources, not just email. But even when
I'm
| connected via VPN, it still asks for my Exchange password once each time
I
| open Outlook.
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| Brandon
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| "Doug" <Doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:1D2CB905-74CB-47F6-A36D-A5BD35B96AC9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > Yes, of course. I am sorry. Kevin is correct. You still have to enter a
| > password when using RPC.
| >
| > Are you using the VPN just to get email? If not, using RPC over HTTPS
will
| > make it so you only have to enter your password once for each time you
| > open
| > Outlook. If you are using VPN for other things as well as email then it
| > should treat you as if you were part of the LAN. As for me, I have a
| > (basically) default SBS setup with the SBS as the DHCP server and I am
| > using
| > SBS VPN. When I connect via VPN and open Outlook it doesn't prompt me
for
| > an
| > additional password. The VPN asks for a password but I believe you can
set
| > it
| > to remember it every time if you want.
| >
| >
| > "Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" wrote:
| >
| >> Doug, even when using RPC over HTTP, the user is still prompted to
enter
| >> their login password when connecting remotely --- yes?
| >>
| >> --
| >> Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
| >> "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
| >>
| >>
| >> "Doug" <Doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| >> news:3A95026C-4259-4EC1-90D0-865F994E8715@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| >> > In my humble opinion, you really should be using RPC over HTTPS for
| >> > connecting Outlook to Exchange remotely. Doing it via VPN is a waste
of
| >> > resources.
| >> >
| >> > "Brandon" wrote:
| >> >
| >> >> When a user connects to the SBS server via a remote client VPN using
| >> >> Outlook, is there a way to setup the Exchange connection so that
the
| >> >> user
| >> >> doesn't have to enter their Exhange password every time the VPN
| >> >> connects?
| >> >>
| >> >> --
| >> >> Brandon
| >> >> Office Equipment & Supplies
| >> >> http://www.presentationsdirect.com
| >> >>
| >> >>
| >> >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
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