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ecce
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Sep 08, 2020

NTLM Authentication issue

Hi,   I'm setting up APM for authentication for Exchange 2013. In certain scenarios NTLM authentication is used to authenticate the client, and SSO via kerberos at the back end. This all works fi...
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Dave_W's avatar
Dave_W
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Hello, no, the APM will not automatically update the password. At this time you have to manually renew it.

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ecce
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Sep 11, 2020

I "solved" this by putting a cronjob for updating the NTLM machine account password on both devices with a few minutes between the jobs running once a month, and turning on automatic sync. But I guess restoring a UCS backup requires a new NTLM machine account to be created since requesting a new password seems to fail unless you already have the current one.

30 */24 * * * /bin/tmsh modify apm ntlm machine-account <ntlm-account> action change-password

Not pretty, but I cannot think of another way.