Exchange 2010 SP2 prompting Outlook users to login
Hi,
Beginning yesterday morning, it seems that most of the users are being prompted to login when they launch their Outlook 2007 clients. We migrated to Exchange back in October and up until now, users would launch their Outlook clients and it would automatically open for them as long as their PCs were attached to the domain and inside our network.
I have a 2 site environment with each site having an Exchange server. Each server has all the necessary roles to function on its own. While users are fine when they enter their credentials, it is still causing us a lot of phone calls so I would love to get this fixed. I installed UR5v2 last night and rebooted the boxes to see if that would help, but it didnt.
The only thing that was done the night before this happened was a reboot of the domain contollers in each office to upgrade their VMware tools. Im guessing it has something to do with that.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Beginning yesterday morning, it seems that most of the users are being prompted to login when they launch their Outlook 2007 clients. We migrated to Exchange back in October and up until now, users would launch their Outlook clients and it would automatically open for them as long as their PCs were attached to the domain and inside our network.
I have a 2 site environment with each site having an Exchange server. Each server has all the necessary roles to function on its own. While users are fine when they enter their credentials, it is still causing us a lot of phone calls so I would love to get this fixed. I installed UR5v2 last night and rebooted the boxes to see if that would help, but it didnt.
The only thing that was done the night before this happened was a reboot of the domain contollers in each office to upgrade their VMware tools. Im guessing it has something to do with that.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Chris Millard
How do your clients connect? Do they use RPC over HTTP at all? If so, it might be checking to see if the security certificate on the Exchange server has expired.
Hi,
Did you check the authentication of the Outlook under Exchange Proxy Settings? Basic or NTLM? That should be the same as the server side which you configured on the Outlook Anywhere.
Did you check the authentication of the Outlook under Exchange Proxy Settings? Basic or NTLM? That should be the same as the server side which you configured on the Outlook Anywhere.
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I have verified that my certs are not expired.
They are mostly laptops, so we have OA turned on on the client side with NTLM as the auth. I also verified that the server side is the same. But even the desktops that have OA off it is happening on.
They are mostly laptops, so we have OA turned on on the client side with NTLM as the auth. I also verified that the server side is the same. But even the desktops that have OA off it is happening on.
Have you rebooted the Exchange server since rebooting the domain controllers?
Did you install Windows Updates last night?
Simon.
Did you install Windows Updates last night?
Simon.
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Yes, that was my first thought. I rebooted both exchange servers last night, which didnt help. I then proceeded to install UR5v2 after that and rebooted again. Still no luck.
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Ok, I think I have it narrowed down to being Outlook Anywhere. After verifying that the 'Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP' option was unchecked earlier, when I went back to check again, it was checked. After some searching, I found that this is normal behavior on Exchange 2010 with OA enabled.
So what I did so far is use GPO to disable it on all PCs and then another GPO to enable it for a specific group. This works for the most part as the popups went away for everyone with OA disabled, but besides being really slow, it is still prompting these OA enabled users for their credentials. Is it normal for a PC that is attached to the domain to still prompt users for credentials?
So what I did so far is use GPO to disable it on all PCs and then another GPO to enable it for a specific group. This works for the most part as the popups went away for everyone with OA disabled, but besides being really slow, it is still prompting these OA enabled users for their credentials. Is it normal for a PC that is attached to the domain to still prompt users for credentials?
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I agree that what I have done is a bandaid and hasnt fixed the cause. I have been testing with a few different machines on and off the network and am not getting anywhere.
Maybe you are correct in that my firewall is blocking the auth packets. I have watched all traffic sourcing from their addresses and dont see any thing blocked or failing. The auth box pops up and i put in the pass and them im fine.
Funny thing is that this only started happening last week while we have been on Exchange since last October. I guess I will just tell the OA users that they need to auth from now on.
Maybe you are correct in that my firewall is blocking the auth packets. I have watched all traffic sourcing from their addresses and dont see any thing blocked or failing. The auth box pops up and i put in the pass and them im fine.
Funny thing is that this only started happening last week while we have been on Exchange since last October. I guess I will just tell the OA users that they need to auth from now on.
I had a situation with one client experiencing exactly the same thing. Went through many of the steps that you have and pinpointed an issue with McAfee's firewall. Shut off it's firewall and enable Microsoft's no problem. Turn the McAfee back on and within 30 seconds a pop-up.
The firewalls don't block the packets but more like damage them with their scanning. So you wouldn't see anything in the logs, but put a different firewall in place as a test and it works.
Simon.
Simon.
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The cause remains undiscovered, but I am able to get users working using OA. They just need to auth each time they open Outlook. Thanks for following up Simon