Did som esearching before i posted this thread but since I did not find any answers I made it.
Im having trouble with Lync causing account lockouts for domain users. This is a very big problem many users have this issue.
The clients are mixed Windows 7 and Windows XP and both of them are affected.
The signing in to Lync is fine and the users can use Lync as normal but after a little while the account becomes locked. I know Lync is causing this cause if you dont run Lync the account will remain unlocked.
Also if I turn off the "Personal Information Manager" inside Lync no more failed authentications is sent, where does this feature get it's credentials?
I have compared two clients one with the problem and one without it, the client with the problem has not got the Registry value "AccountPassword" but it has the value "SavePassword" set to 1.
Computer without the problem has got the "AccountPassword" value and "SavePassword" set to 1.
Some computers does not have "AccountPassword" value but they have "SavePassword" set to 0.
So the client with the problem can this "SavePassword" set to 1 cause the problem since "AccountPassword" value is not set?
I can solve this problem my giving users a new profile on the local computer so the problem is definetely on a user level. Reinstall of Lync wont resolve the issue so again the question where does this Personal Information Manager get it's gredentials?