I am perplexed. This makes perfect sense to me but doesn't seem to be working. On nearly all of the RPC over HTTP clients I have config'd during the past few weeks, Outlook doesn't seem to want to remember the password for the BACK-end server, despite the fact that I have checked the "remember password" box.

The computer I am at currently is a member of a different domain which I administrate. Could it be that there is a GPO that is preventing the password from being saved?

Paul P.

here is some help:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;820281

Stajko

This was exactly what i was looking for!

I have been troubleshooting this since last week when we added our front end server.

Thanks alot Andreas!

/Magnus

Magnus Goransson

Still does not work. UserID stays cached, password does not. Anything blocking this?

John

I have the same problem. Although my problem may be slightly different.
My client machine is actually Windows 2003 Server.
Is there anything that can be done?

Thanks

J.F.

this guys have some kind of documents as well to setup outlook.
http://www.123together.com/Support/Setup_Outlook_2003_for_Exchange.htm

http://www.andreasroom.com/blog/archive/2005/06/17/RPCHTTP.aspx
microsoft:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402731033.aspx

let me know
Javier

Javier O

No tsure what I'm missing, but I get the password prompt, I have the settings identical, I have the frontend / backend passwords in the password manager, I know the front end works, becuase I can auto-connect to the owa without a manual sign in (I added it to Intranets) - so don't know what I'm missing. Thanks though!

Hmmm - I've got the same problem, but this doesn't

I'm going through a firewall to the exchange box - does that make any difference? i.e. the exchange server (single server, front and backend) is running on a private address - there is a firewall in front of it.

Mitch

The solution for me was to increase the lmcompatibilitylevel of the client machine to 2.

Jason

Password Saver is a powerful, feature-rich solution for storing all your password information in a secure, centralized database on your hard drive.
http://www.yaodownload.com/utilites/security-encryption/password-saver/

mike

My lmcompatibility level was 3 by default - I shouldn't have to drop it should I?

Mitch

Superb, thanks a lot !!

gvspm

Note that for some of you the reason this isn't working is that you are using a computer which is a member of a *different* domain than the one you are trying to connect to with RPC over HTTP.

If you don't understand why then note that when you are using this hack you switch authentication from Basic to NTLM. NTLM authenticates by passing your machine information......

The trick described should work however in most cases for a computer that is a member of the domain that it is connecting to.

Matt Ridings

yes

nidal

What ablue being a memebr of no domain is there a way arround that.

Jeremy

I can't get this to work either. My client is connecting from a different domain to the server's domain but I don't understand why the Stored Password doesn't use the whole UPN or user/domain and athenticate. Does anyone know if this is even possible?

David

that's wut im looking for for all these past days..
and it works for me , u rock

Joe

Matt, do you know of a solution that compensates for being in a different domain from the one you are trying to access?

-A

THANK YOU!

It doesn't work for my home machine over VPN since the keymgr wont let me manually add anything (??), but it works great for any computer that is part of the domain (including my laptop@home) even though the exchange environment is not a part of our ORG and we have no plans to develop a trust between the two.

-bsb

A friend had this problem and I made a small program to help him to login automatically. This is not a professional solution but...

See http://www.mondada.net/gabriele/autologin/

Gab

NICE WORK!

This works great, and a good solution!

Kudos!

Kevin

Hi,

for those it still does not work I would suggest to do the following:
1., set "LmComatibilityLevel" to "3" (if it does not work with 3 then also try it with 2) under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa"
2., under "Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Advanced -> Manage Passwords" add just "*.domain.com" instead of "server.domain.com" with the correct credentials

For example if the RPCProxy server's name is "mail.domain.com" and the mailbox server's FQDN name is "mbx.child.domain.com", then just enter "*.domain.com" under "Manage Passwords".

When I specified the FQDN of the RPCProxy and the mailbox serve under the password manager, I was always asked for credentials. After I replaced the FQDN-s with "*.domain.com" RPC over HTTP(S) also worked without entering the credentials.

Tom

Tom

Tom
THANK YOU, this solved my problem.

Setting to *.domain.com in keymgr.dll (manage passwords) solved my problem.

-I had two computers that were able to remember outlook passwords by pointing at mbx.child.comain.com, and 15 that couldn't.
-My Exchange 2007 host server is on a different domain than my local users.
-My outlook clients couldn't remember password, with / without using RPC to connect

david

bsb
If you are missing the ADD button from keymgr and you have admin rights, then check HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Lsa\DisableDomainCreds
value of 1 (enabled) will prevent you from saving new credentials.
CHange the value to 0 and reboot. You should have the add button.
This value is 0 by default; the NSA security templates change it to 1 (this field is named 'Network Access: Do not allow storage of credentials or .NET passports' in security configuration snapin)

david

Excellent. Thanks for the tip. I have been trying to get rid of that.

DanL

I was having this problem with Outlook 2007 on Vista Ultimate. Setting to *.domain.com in keymgr.dll (manage passwords) solved my problem. Thanks!

Nathan

Thank you for this... It took forever to find out that mutal authentication using the msstp: format was the one thing I was missing for NTLM authentication to be saved in outlook 2003.

Stephen

Thanks! I just setup my exchange 2007 server using a seperate box to run AD and this worked great!

wgvtech

I got it working with the *.domain.com in user accounts. Thanks for the help.

Jarrett

Very please with this. I had a client who was getting well p-off with this and now its solved. Thanks for the hard work.

Jimbo Jones

Thanks to the original post back on 6/17/05 and to all of you contributing to the feedback. This is so helpful.

I used the User Accounts | Manage Your Network Password from my Vista PC at home, and RPC/HTTP does not prompt for password - which is what I need.

My Outlook has 2 profiles that are set up to connect to Exchange through RPT/HTTP. The problem is that only one profile can remember the password at a time. If profile 1 selects remember my password, it will be ok if profile 2 does NOT select remember password. The moment profile 2 selects remember password, profile 1 will be prompted for password.

Is it possible for both profiles to remember their passwords ?

Thanks
Steve

Steve

Thanks a lot,
Changing servername to *.local solved my problem

M de Visser

Thanks for the tip. It sure saved me some time trying to figure it out.

Cheers

James Nation

Wierdly enough, I had this working perfectly with exchange 2k3 but switching to 2k7 brought up the error. Using the *.domain.com as a lead I attempted this with no luck. The problem fix dawned on me when I received the prompt the next time. The prompt gives the exact name of the domain it is having difficulty logging into. In my case it was just domain.com without the host at the beginning.

JasonJ

that's wut im looking for for all these past days..
and it works for me , u rock thanks

kral oyun

Excellent. Thanks for the tip. I have been trying to get rid of that

hugo oyunları

Thanks a million I have been pulling my hair out on this one (Thanks for forcing Vista on us MS)I only did the last step and added my frontend credentials under network passwords and it no longer asks for my pw!

Tom

Tomr

I have battled similar issues over the years making RPC/HTTP work. One of the main things that causes this issue in my experience, is making sure that the RPC/HTTP proxy settings specify NTLM authentication over Basic authentication, as well as making sure that the lmcompatability level is correct.

As for the best guide I've seen for implementing RPC/HTTP, look here:

http://www.amset.info/exchange/rpc-http-server.asp

Jason K.

UNfortunately some of us use servers that don't allow NTLM authentication. If you're one of these people try this program: http://rapidshare.com/files/88322998/exchange.zip

Copy XchgV2 into the Startup folder of your computer and then run it. Type your password twice and in the bottom box type the text that appears in the password prompt in the bottom textbox. Restart your PC and the dialog should be filled out automatically after a brief delay.

Hope some of you find this useful!

Chris Denman

works like a charme, thank you!

picklocker

Working after I've added msstd:webmail.ihostexchange.net to the certificate section in proxyserver settings, which SherWeb Autodiscovery doesn't set by itself.

Hope this is helpful for those who have problems.

BTW: for me there was no need for "LmComatibilityLevel"

melino

Thanx. Now i can start my Outlook and no longer need to type my password :)

DgL

*.domain worked for me to. I have searched high and low for this fix, even contacting service providers. Thanks to everyone who posted here!

Jrb

Thanks! Works perfectly!!!

John

The RapidShare link doesn't work any more. Any chance of restoring it?

Thanks.

Traveller

Thanks for this wonderful post. It works great under Vista running Outlook 2007 for me.

However, please add the *.domain solution to the main article for those who are too lazy to read through all the comments. The other solution doesn't work for me, for whatever reason.

Thanks again!

RO

Just another not to say thank you - but I too needed the *.domain solution.

Mark

Thanks

You have saved me from throwing my laptop out of the window

I was fed up of having to enter my 12 letter password every time I went into outlook.

You are a complete star

Thanks

Rob Collinson

Thanks this was the most helpful.
However, I only can use it on XP. When I go to Manage Passwords on Vista and click Edit on the created password the Domain field is greyed out and thus can't be edited. Anyone had the same prob?

kvicho

Solved. You have to create two entries in the Manage Passwords. One of them is *.FQDN (the FQDN you use in the RPC over HTTPS proxy setting) and the other is the full DNS name of your mail server: *.yourdomain.com
Both entries should contain your user name in DOMAIN\username format and your password.
This worked for me.

kvicho

This was what I was looking for the last piece that made it save my password.
Thanks!!!

Ken Hathaway

thx, this was the final piece of my puzzle

Frederiek Van Hoornick

Thank you great post.

Gil K

Thank you, thank you, thank you. After six months of entering a password (5 times in the last hour because outlook wasn't open as I was using "Send to"), I finally have relief.

Daniel

Thank you for the useful information.

Paul

Hi,
Seems my rapidshare file got deleted! Here it is again on more permenant web space:
http://www.denman.me.uk/lasso/OUTLOOK_.EXE
This is a launcher that starts Outlook, simply replace the shortcut(s) you normally click on to launch Outlook, to point to this file instead, and it will complete your password for you. NB: Be sure to put this file in the same folder as Outlook is in.
Enjoy!
Chris

Chris Denman

About the file above: can I just remind you NOT to overwrite the Outlook.exe file with this one - simply place it in the same folder.

Chris Denman

@Chris Does the Outlook launcher also work with Outlook 2007?

Bart

Ok, it does.

Bart

We are using Fasthosts for our website hosting and their servers are set up only to use Basic Auth. They have told us that if we select NTLM the Exchange mailbox will cease to function. Basically, there is no way to remember password for an Exchange mail box hosted with Fasthosts. Another nail in the coffin for them I feel.

Nathon

Thanks so much, I tried about 10 different tips to get this to work and this one finally did it for me!

Awesom

Thanks, this worked perfectly.

Lori

This works!!! Thank you very much for posting this.

Jay P.

Another thanks to Tom who posted way back on 27/03/2007, the *.domain.com entry in Manage Passwords solved our problem completely!

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Thanks kvicho! That is exactly what I have been looking for!

Michael Schroeder

Brilliant - slightly different specific directions for vista, but still works! And on OL2007 and SP08!!!

Kalais

If you enter the user name as username@fqdn then Outlook remembers the full username (including the fqdn) next time.

Kev

Hi everyone ... just started dealing with the same ultra-annoying problem (Outlook 2007, Windows 7) ... I am using hosted exchange (myhostedsolutions.com), and they require Basic Authentication.

... does that eliminate the *domain.com password approach in my case (so far no combination is working) ?

... all of the file links above are not working ... could someone please repost and/or let me know what that program is ... is it the autologin script ... http://www.mondada.net/gabriele/autologin/ ?

Thanks!

Ilya

Finally,

I could only get it to connect with basic auth. Didn't realize that the server web site would have to have permission set.

Thanks I've been typeing my password for over a 2 year. It wasn't that big of a deal but it is nice to not have to anymore.

Thanks,

Michael Grassman

many thanks to your post!

Ken

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for!

Koen

thanks, you are my hero

reinhold

thank you all.. i was looking for this for several days.. *.local and *.domanin.com worked for me.. thanks a lot once more..

mahir

I am on one domain trying to connect to a server on another. Saving "*.domain.com" under the password manager, worked for me.

bcleary

I tried everything and nothing worked, until I tried the *.domain.com trick and now it works fine! I love you!

Joe

Unfortunately, most of what is written here does not work with Windows XP Media Center Edition MCE. There is simply no "add" button in the password dialog box - even if you use the registry hack described above.

The autologin tool from mondada.net does work, but I hate storing the password in a cleartext field.

The autologin tool from denman.me.uk does not work. It crashes immediately after the start (Outlook 2007).

kongo09

This is a great procedure for Outlook 2007 as well.

chris

When you click the Manage my network passwords link in the User Accounts applet in order to add or remove the stored credentials, the Stored User Names and Passwords dialog opens, but the command buttons may be grayed out. Also, the Add button may be missing.

Resolution
This happens if the security Policy Do not allow the storage of credentials is enabled. To disable the Policy, use the steps below.

For Windows XP Professional
Click Start, Run and type Secpol.msc
Under Local Policies, select Security Options
In the right-pane, scroll down the list and locate the following entry:
Network access: Do not allow the storage of credentials or .NET Passports for network authentication

Double-click the option and set it to Disabled
Close the Local Security Settings window
Restart Windows for the changes to take effect
Here is the registry key that stores the above setting

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa]
"disabledomaincreds"=dword:00000000

Nilesh