How do you specify Exchange password in OCT?

We've recently migrated our 10 Windows 8 laptops to a domain (Server 2012) with redirected profiles, which means that Outlook (Office 2010 Pro Plus) has to be set up again, for each user on each machine.  We've got a lot of new employees and sort of an "open" office environment, in that every employee expects to be able to log in to every laptop.  With 25 employees, that means I need to set up 250 Outlook accounts!  Needless to say, I'm not looking forward to it.  I had to do it that way when we had half as many computers and it took me all weekend! 

Instead of going with roaming profiles or something that could potentially complicate things server-side, I'd like to use OCT to configure every user's account and then use a GPO to push the configuration out to everyone.  I'm brand new to OCT, but it seems like it could be the answer to my prayers.  That said, I'm setting up Outlook accounts, and I can't see anywhere to put a password.  

Does Outlook simply prompt them for a password the first time?  Keeping in mind that I want all the users to have their Outlook ready with zero extra action on their part, is there anything I can do about this?

Thanks!

August 7th, 2013 7:44pm

Hi, once you've finished the deployment, the users won't be prompted for the password, since Outlook automatically matches their credentials.

Regards.

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August 9th, 2013 5:07am

Matches their credentials?  You mean it uses their windows domain password?  

In any case I ran into another problem entirely - I set up what I thought was an account for each user, but when I imported the PRF it stuck all the mailboxes in the same users' Outlook profile. 
Also, I apparently don't have the server correct (normally we use an autodiscover URL).

So perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself...

August 10th, 2013 2:03pm

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