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BPOS Automatic Outlook Sign In - How?

I'm looking to implement something similar to Microsoft's BPOS Sign In tool:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/microsoft-mos-bpos,2357-7.html

However, I'm having trouble finding information on how they manage to pass the credentials on to Outlook.

The main issue I'm trying to resolve, is signing in to Outlook on a non-domain joined machine, without having to enter user credentials. I'm open to all suggestions on how this can be done, whether it be hooking Windows functions to look for the Credential Manager prompt, or being able to pass credentials to Outlook through switches (I've not found any yet), or even if the easiest route would be using FindWindowEx followed by SendKeys to enter the details character by character.

I am hoping that there is an easier way, though! :)

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