[RESOLVED] How can I use front headphones and rear speaker jack as separate output ports?

My Optiplex 7010 has your usual onboard sound configuration -- speaker and microphone jacks in both the front and rear. Recently my USB headset (which I use for conference calls) developed a short and while I wait for a new set to arrive, I'm temporarily
using an old set that still needs mini stereo jacks.
So I plugged the headset in to the front jacks, and left the external speakers plugged in to the rear jacks. Unfortunately the Windows sound configuration for this system only recognizes one "High Definition Audio Device" and if I plug in the headset,
the external speakers stop working.
My goal is to have phone/Lync calls go through the headset, but all other sounds -- most importantly contact alerts -- go through the external speakers.  Is that possible?  OS is Windows 7 Enterprise.
[edited to close this question] The short answer is, you can't get there from here unless your sound card supports assigning a different device name to the front jacks vs. the back jacks, which mine does not.

Fairly sure that would depend on the specific sound card in the machine and the drivers and related software you have installed on your machine. By default I believe most sound cards are configured to report to Windows that you have one sound input/output,
so the same sound comes from both front and back depending on what you have plugged into them. In order to get Windows to see them as separate connections and allow you to send different sound output to each you'd need to configure that in your sound card
driver software.
For example, see
http://www.eightforums.com/sound-audio/37996-realtek-hd-audio-only-shows-one-audio-output-time.html which discusses setting up essentially the same thing as you're after on a machine with a realtek sound card, and includes screen shots of the software and
where to configure it. I don't know if your machine is using a Realtek card for sure, if not you'd obviously need the driver software for the card, but looking online it looks like the OptiPlex 7010's do indeed use them.

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