I had the lovely yearly experience of changing my CWL password the other day. This is sort of a forced-march; trying to login quickly to get something done, then *boom* — slow down… login to change your password, type old and new(twice), then logout, then login again. Now, where was I??
Because this happens only once a year, I tend to forget of the other consequences. Such as:
– in the middle of meeting, why can’t I access that website? Oh yeah, re-authenticate to wireless.
– why didn’t Joe* get that email? Oh yeah, stop and start Outlook to re-authenticate.
But the part the surprised me was when I checked my phone on the way home on the bus, the battery was dead (well, 2%). It was fully charged in the morning. I had noticed that it was down to 1/3 in the late afternoon, so stopped everything I could on it, if that’s even possible.
After getting home and plugging in, I had a chance to look more closely and see what was chewing on the battery (android, you can do that). It was ‘Exchange Services’.
There it was, the phone spent the entire day trying to connect to Exchange with the wrong password. I should put a timer on this post to re-send it to myself one year from now when it happens again.
*not really Joe. Name has been changed…
Thanks, Bob. I have a similar problem on my Blackberry, except I change my passord monthly. But I don’t have to send myself an email as a reminder – my Blackberry overheats in my pocket to alert me!