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ilmaestro7
Copper Contributor
Aug 19, 2020

SARA Tool Incorrect username or password

Hi,

 

We are currently experiencing an issue with the SARA tool that I am trying to deploy for the support staff on a large migration to Exchange Online. All client users are getting the issue with incorrect username and password when running the tool. Normally this is because the password complexity for on-prem AD does not match the Azure AD complexity, however I know that the users have changed their passwords to match the complexity.

I have never experienced an issue with the tool before and have only seen this issue when using the test connectivity tool, so if anyone has any ideas that would be great?

 

Rgds

Lee

    • ilmaestro7's avatar
      ilmaestro7
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 19, 2020

      ChristianBergstrom 

      Hi,

      I should say that the tool is deployed as it is built into Outlook, but the users have the issue when they run any of the Outlook tests and it fails on the AutoDiscover test. I know that AutoDiscover works fine, as I can run the auto-configuration test and get the xml file. Also we can create Outlook profiles. I have tested it from my personal machine on my test mailbox and it works fine. MS support are looking into the issue, but I was hoping someone had seen the issue before. 

      As I mentioned earlier I have never had an issue with running the tool in previous migrations and if we have any issues that we need to report to MS, I know that they will ask us to run that tool straight away.

       

      Rgds

      Lee

       

       

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        ChristianBergstrom
        Silver Contributor
        Aug 19, 2020

        ilmaestro7 Hey! Thanks for the info. I understand you're talking about the "support tool" button from within Outlook under the Help menu then? As I said I have no experience from what you're describing, but for me it sounds as if the pre-migration Autodiscover server is cached in the Outlook profile in the registry as you can create new profiles successfully.

         

        If applicable (obviously) you could use the ExcludeLastKnownGoodUrl reg key and Outlook will not use the last known working AutoDiscover URL.

         

        Either of these.

         

        HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\x.0\Outlook\Autodiscover
        DWORD: ExcludeLastKnownGoodUrl
        Value: 1

        HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\x.0\Outlook\Autodiscover
        DWORD: ExcludeLastKnownGoodUrl
        Value: 1

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