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How to save password in for office communicator (OCS 2007)

How to get save password option for Office Communicator users

Open Registry editor and locate the following key

HKLM/Software/Policies/Microsoft/Communicator,  and set SavePassword=1.

This enables a checkbox to save password in MOC login dialogue.

After the password is entered it is saved into the registry

HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Communicator/AccountPassword

This registry key store in hashed value. Changing the hash requires re-entering the password.

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Note: You may want to use this option if MOC users login from workgroup machine, or Kerberos auth is not working. [If the following path in registry is not available, then create newly and add the key]

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