Windows Credential Manager (Off-Domain)
Hi: I am connected to a VPN to my Workplace where I have access to a variety of SharePoint sites and file shares. Additionally, I have those SharePoint lists synchronized with Outlook 2007. Frustratingly enough, I am constantly bombarded to enter my credentials for every resource. Obviously the Intranet zone will not work in IE since I am not on the domain, but I was hoping credential manager and "Remember my password" would work whenever entering my username and password. I can see all of my credentials in credential manager but I am still being prompted for all the resources listed there-in. Is this a limitation of credential manager when not logged onto a domain or is it just a broken feature? Thanks, Mark
October 26th, 2009 3:57pm

I would so love to know if this is possible, did you have any answers on this?
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March 24th, 2010 12:26pm

I did not. I think it is just a limitation in Windows.
March 24th, 2010 2:49pm

I just posted this elsewhere. Figured I'd post here as well since I suspect your having the same problem. Did you specify the full authentication path? If either computer involved in an authentication attempt is not a domain member, you must target the user you’re attempting to utilize. If you’re on a domain member attempting to cache a non-domain computer, use <non-domain-computer-name>\<user name> (COMPUTERNAME\USERNAME). If your attempting to cache domain credentials on a non-domain member, you can target the specific server or a wildcard (fs0.domain.local vs *.domain.local) with the user name DOMAIN\USER or user@domain-dns (In my example would be user@domain.local). Having not used the Credential Manager with Web Servers yet, the following is a guess based on how IIS normally works. It will probably depend on the sites configuration. It may require you target the IIS Computer Name, the IIS Domain Name, or it nothing except the user name. If IIS is fully configured, it probably won’t want more than a straight user name. user@domain-dns only works on variants of Windows post XP/2003r2, and older applications will not understand it. Hope this helps.
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April 10th, 2010 6:06am

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