Prompting for Username and Password - Email is still available

[AndrewH]

Hi,
I am currently investigating a move from GroupWise to Outook 2003 &
Exchange. I have noticed a major security issue that I hope can be sorted.

I am rolling out a Single Profile .PRF to all users, Outlook 2003 in Cached
Exchange Mode connecting to an Exchange 2003 Server.

I have noticed that when you load Outlook with the option "Always Prompt for
a user name and password" that cached mail loads up in the background
regardless of wether you have authenticated to the exchange server or not.
This is a pretty major security risk !

With GroupWise, you can also run in Cached mode, however the password is
also cached locally allowing authentication whist offline.

Is there anyway to force the outlook client to no go into Offline mode if
the client has not authenticated ?

Thanks in Advance.
Andrew

 

[Orrin]

I am having a similar issue. I have a user who recently upgraded from
Outlook 2000 to 2003 and noticed that we can now not set Outlook to ask for
authentication on when opening Outlook. We use an Exchange server (2003 I
believe) and if we set it so password authentication is required before
connecting to the Exchange server and you hit cancel on the authentication,
Outlook goes into Offline mode and as AndrewH stated, items are still
displayed. In Outlook 2000 you could set the logon network security to NT
Password Auth, Distributed Password Auth, or None. If it was set to None,
the user logged into Windows normally and then upon opening Outlook was
required to enter their username and password again. My user liked having
this dual-password authenication and we'd like to have this ability again

Is there a way to disable Offline mode? Or set it so that you can't get
into Outlook without a password?

Thank you.