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Exchange 2013 installed and working - until now. Prompts random users for username/pass

Hi all --

got a very weird issue with an Exchange 2013 install for a client of mine. We have installed and configured Ex2k13 and have had it running in pre-production for a month or so now (incl SSL certs). No issues.

Configured the user bases roaming profiles to use the new exchange accounts after PST migration and all good. Do to the nature of our setup the accounts are configured as non-cached mode.

Now we have *some* (so far about 10 our of 170) users who will open outlook and immediately be prompted for username and password. If the user types in correct username and password (domain\username) the prompt just reappears. If the user hits cancel outlook says "Server unavailable" and outlook bombs out. I should mention that exchange is, at all times, available. The same user which gets prompted for auth can login to OWA  without issue.

Can i fix this? Yes - i can. By going to control panel > mail > Delete mail profile and start again. The wizard to add exchange account is re-completed and outlooks works immediately.

Obviously i do not want to have to do this, nor do i have any understanding why this is occuring to begin with since there has been no changes to the config of the exchange server recently.

Any comments and assistance very welcome.

Thanks all!

Scenario:
Exchange 2013 installed on 2008r2 Enterprise.
Clients are win 7 SP1 running Office 2010 SP1.
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Try it on one Pc and check if this solve issue.

    Open User Accounts by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking User Accounts and Family Safety (or clicking User Accounts, if you are connected to a network domain), and then clicking User Accounts.

    In the left pane, click Manage your credentials.

    Click the vault that contains the credential that you want to remove.

    Click the credential that you want to remove, and then click Remove from vault.

After that open Outlook and check
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Hi there guys thanks for the replies -

Credential manager does not come I to play as there are no cached credentials for users

Defaul settings sounds good I'm on that track now and will return with results.
Im chasing up the default settings option and i can see (via IIS mgr) that the RPC is missing a type of authentication. I am searching but not sure how it is i add that auth type via powershell?

Thanks guys for support