Microsoft CRM Outlook client and authentication balloons

by Bill Owens 21. July 2008 20:17
Posted by Mike Snyder on July 1, 2008

You know those little "balloons" that pop up from time to time in the Outlook 4.0 client? Below are some registry settings to change the Outlook client's behavior around network connectivity, notifications and so on. Our support manager recommend increasing ClientAuthAllowRetries to 10 and ClientAuthNotificationThrottle to 60000 (60 seconds), but you can obviously tweak to fit to your unique environment.

Regkey Name

Default

Description

ClientAuthNotificationThrottle30000Specifies the required elapsed time before which another balloon notification may be displayed (helps prevent too frequent balloon notifications).

ClientAuthRenewPeriod

60000

Specifies how frequently the hoster process will check if it should renew authentication.

ClientAuthVerifyConnectionPeriod

30000

Specifies how frequently the hoster process will check connectivity to the web application by downloading a tiny icon (anonymous access).

ClientAuthVerifySignedInPeriod

5000

Specifies how frequently the hoster process will check if authentication has been lost (ex: detect if cookies have been deleted or the CRM ticket has expired).

ClientAuthAllowRetries

3Specifies the number of failed authentication attempts (after this an error will be shown or the client will move to the offline state).

Posted by Mike Snyder on July 1, 2008 in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

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