Win XP Pro Credentials question...

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Phil Strack

Hi-
Don't know if this is the appropriate news group so please forgive the
cross-post if its not. I have several XP Pro users who use Outlook XP for
their mail. The Exchange environment is built on a standalone Active
Directory (based on Win2K) and there are no machine accounts in the domain.
The client's authenticate to the domain when the log into mail.
The problem we are seeing is when we use launch Outlook with WinXP it does
not populate any of the user credentials and they have to re-enter them
(including the domain) every time they log in. I have tried to add the
credentials to the User Accounts control panel but keeps telling me that
they can not be added because the domain can not be logged into. I've tried
to enter them with the domain\account format as well as the trying them
separate. Nothing appears to work. Is there any solution to this?

Thanks for any assistance offered.

-Phil
 
I'm not 100% sure of your question, but if you need a program to remember and/or use different credentials of a different user account, right click on your desktop and go to NEW >>> SHORTCUT and type in

runas /user:"computername\username" /savecred "filename

something like this (Not actual location of outlook

runas /user:"private0035\Paul Doe" /savecred "C:\OfficeFiles\outlook.exe

I'm not sure if this is what you need, but this technique helps me run some legacy apps that require admin access on user or power user accounts. One drawback is any file that is opened by that file also runs with the permissions of that user, which may be a security hole
 
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