Configure Lync Control Panel To Remember Password & Use Windows Authentication

Any time you login to Lync Control Panel, you have to punch in the admin credentials, even if you have logged into the server with your admin account. Another issue is even when you select to remember the password, you are prompted for credentials again. How can we fix this?

The answer is pretty simple. Lync control panel is a Silverlight based webpage. Hence, you can login to the control panel from any machine (with Silverlight installed) using a compatible browser using https.

Configure the following in order to make Lync server to use Windows authentication and thereby bypass the login prompt.

• Connect to Lync Control Panel using a broswer. (https://lync server fqdn as I have a Std Edition server).
• Ignore the “Forbidden error” page.
• Click Tools –> Internet options in the browser.
• Navigate to the security tab, select “Local Intranet” and click on “Sites” button.
• Add the Lync Server fqdn url. Click “Close” button and quit the browser.

• Login to the Lync control panel now and your windows login will be used.
• Use the sign out button if you want to login as a different user.