Can I Password Protect A Profile?

Hi,

I would like to find a way to password protect an Outlook Profile, rather
than just the email accounts within. Is there a way to do this?

The situation is; say for example I have a Win2K Prof. system with one user
that is automatically logged in as default. There is an Outlook profile
that may connect with 2-3 different mail servers. The passwords to these
email accounts are saved in the profile correctly which would allow auomatic
connection to the accounts. But, since this profile is potentially
available to all the 'users' of the signed-on system, I would like to
essentially protect all these email accounts with a single password.

Even if I coded a script that started Outlook with the desired profile, it
would still be available to others by just opening Outlook and selecting
that profile.

I could also make something work if email account passwords could be passed
along with a command line switch.

Any ideas?? Thanks!

Steve,

Do you get the desired result if you set the authentication on the profile
to "None"?


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"SteveT" <steve.troiano@harpercollins.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I would like to find a way to password protect an Outlook Profile, rather
> than just the email accounts within. Is there a way to do this?
>
> The situation is; say for example I have a Win2K Prof. system with one
user
> that is automatically logged in as default. There is an Outlook profile
> that may connect with 2-3 different mail servers. The passwords to these
> email accounts are saved in the profile correctly which would allow
auomatic
> connection to the accounts. But, since this profile is potentially
> available to all the 'users' of the signed-on system, I would like to
> essentially protect all these email accounts with a single password.
>
> Even if I coded a script that started Outlook with the desired profile, it
> would still be available to others by just opening Outlook and selecting
> that profile.
>
> I could also make something work if email account passwords could be
passed
> along with a command line switch.
>
> Any ideas?? Thanks!
>
>

Are you connecting to exchange server? if so, yes, you can password protect
the profile in an manner of speaking... if not, you'll need to leave the
password fields blank for the accounts and add a password to the pst.

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"SteveT" <steve.troiano@harpercollins.com> wrote in message
news:Ov5IX5jdDHA.3948@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I would like to find a way to password protect an Outlook Profile, rather
> than just the email accounts within. Is there a way to do this?
>
> The situation is; say for example I have a Win2K Prof. system with one
user
> that is automatically logged in as default. There is an Outlook profile
> that may connect with 2-3 different mail servers. The passwords to these
> email accounts are saved in the profile correctly which would allow
auomatic
> connection to the accounts. But, since this profile is potentially
> available to all the 'users' of the signed-on system, I would like to
> essentially protect all these email accounts with a single password.
>
> Even if I coded a script that started Outlook with the desired profile, it
> would still be available to others by just opening Outlook and selecting
> that profile.
>
> I could also make something work if email account passwords could be
passed
> along with a command line switch.
>
> Any ideas?? Thanks!
>
>

Just to sum up the various answers you've received, you can password protect email accounts and PST files, but not the profile as a whole.

Sounds like you need to set up separate, password-protected Windows logins for the users of that computer.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"SteveT" <steve.troiano@harpercollins.com> wrote in message news:Ov5IX5jdDHA.3948@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I would like to find a way to password protect an Outlook Profile, rather
> than just the email accounts within. Is there a way to do this?
>
> The situation is; say for example I have a Win2K Prof. system with one user
> that is automatically logged in as default. There is an Outlook profile
> that may connect with 2-3 different mail servers. The passwords to these
> email accounts are saved in the profile correctly which would allow auomatic
> connection to the accounts. But, since this profile is potentially
> available to all the 'users' of the signed-on system, I would like to
> essentially protect all these email accounts with a single password.
>
> Even if I coded a script that started Outlook with the desired profile, it
> would still be available to others by just opening Outlook and selecting
> that profile.
>
> I could also make something work if email account passwords could be passed
> along with a command line switch.
>
> Any ideas?? Thanks!
>
>