Connecting to Exchange without being logged into network as domain

At my workplace, our company uses a Windows Server 2003 domain
network, and we're going to be migrated to an Exchange 2007 server (we
had a POP3/SMTP server for email until now). Local client is Outlook
2003.

My problem is that, although I do have a domain user login, I never
used it to log into my machine in years. I use a separate local
workstation login and connect to server shares and the POP/SMTP server
manually (with the domain user login and password). My machine is
heavily customized (user-based), those customizations would be
destroyed if I have to move to a different user profile on my machine.

So I'm looking for a way to keep logging in to my machine as user
"B" (not a member of the domain) while connecting to the Exchange
server over the LAN as user "A". Is there any way to do that? From
searching the net, I couldn't find anything.

BTW: There is no IMAP functionality set up for the Exchange server
(AFAIK, Exchange could do that), so I cannot use that as a workaround
for mail.

Any hints?

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F
Wed May 14 21:06:20 PDT 2008

> At my workplace, our company uses a Windows Server 2003 domain
> network, and we're going to be migrated to an Exchange 2007 server (we
> had a POP3/SMTP server for email until now). Local client is Outlook
> 2003.
>
> My problem is that, although I do have a domain user login, I never
> used it to log into my machine in years. I use a separate local
> workstation login and connect to server shares and the POP/SMTP server
> manually (with the domain user login and password). My machine is
> heavily customized (user-based), those customizations would be
> destroyed if I have to move to a different user profile on my machine.
>
> So I'm looking for a way to keep logging in to my machine as user "B"
> (not a member of the domain) while connecting to the Exchange server
> over the LAN as user "A". Is there any way to do that? From searching
> the net, I couldn't find anything.
>

Actually, you shouldn't need to do anything. If Outlook can't connect to
the server using your current credentials, it should ask you for the proper
credentials to get into the mailbox. And even if it doesn't, the profile
set up will allow you to force Outlook to prompt for domain credentials by
going to the Security tab of the profile definition and selecting None for
Logon Network Security.

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-f.h.

timbr
Mon May 19 12:45:02 PDT 2008

f.h., thank you so very much!
Today the server was migrated and everything went perfectly.
This saved me a HUGE amount of time and work!