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Curlergrrl

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Oct 30, 2009, 11:42:09 AM10/30/09
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I am in the process of deploying an Exchange 2007 server in an existing
Exchange 2003 environment. Exchange 2007 is running on a Windows 2008 Server
(standard edition), with SP2. All clients are running Vista Business with
Outlook 2003. I have moved one mailbox to the new server and am having a
rather strange little problem. When I open my Outlook 2003 client, the
mailbox opens fine, no problem. However, about 15-30 seconds or so after the
mailbox opens, I get a password prompt asking for a password to connect to
the new (Exchange 2007) server, where the mailbox resides. Once I enter the
user's password, the prompt goes away and doesn't reappear until the next
time I close and open the mailbox. I am logged on to the workstation with
the same user name and password as the mailbox, so there's no reason I can
think of for this prompt to come up. I've tried creating a new Outlook
profile and also changing the authentication methods in the Outlook profile,
but nothing seems to make a difference. I've also done a little searching on
this topic without finding anything to give me a clue as to the cause of
this particular problem.

This is all connected locally, so there's no OWA or Outlook Anywhere action
going on here - it's a straight private LAN connection.

Any help would be appreciated. I really don't want my users to have to type
their password each time they open Outlook.

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Deb

Ed Crowley [MVP]

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Oct 31, 2009, 5:07:50 PM10/31/09
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Exchange 2007 is in the same forest and organization as the Exchange 2003
server, correct?
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Curlergrrl

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Nov 2, 2009, 12:59:46 PM11/2/09
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Yes. I have discovered (to my surprise and confusion) that this only seems
to happen on my administrative workstation, where I am logged on with domain
administrator and Exchange Full Administrator permissions! Doesn't make any
sense to me, but at least it doesn't seem to affect the regular users...

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Ed Crowley [MVP]

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Nov 2, 2009, 6:53:16 PM11/2/09
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You shouldn't mail-enable administrator accounts because you might allow a
potential virus sent through e-mail to have the keys to your kingdom.
Security best practice is to separate your personal mailbox-enabled account
and your administrative account.

Administrative accounts have some explicit denies in rights that might be
interfering with your client operation, but I can't say without a lot more
information, sorry.


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