Re: Unable to get OMA working

From: Paul Cotgrove (pcotgrove_at_networkingfutures.co.uk)
Date: 08/06/04

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    Many Thanks Dave

    Any info you have on this would be greatly appreciated as I really
    have run into a brick wall over this. Thanks for your help and I look
    forward to hearing from you in the new future

    "Dave" <newsATfureyDOTnet> wrote in message news:<OX9tgvteEHA.1656@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...
    > I had the same problems as you. The path was definitely wrong on my system,
    > so I changed it. I will go see if I can find the article I found.
    >
    > Also, check DIRECTORY SECURITY settings and make sure it (OMA) isn't
    > restricted to internal computers only.
    >
    > Dave
    >
    > "Paul Cotgrove" <pcotgrove@networkingfutures.co.uk> wrote in message
    > news:577a49c1.0408042227.753d4811@posting.google.com...
    > > Hi
    > >
    > > I have had untold issues trying to get OMA working from an
    > > out-of-the-box installation of Exchange 2003. My configuration is a
    > > single server running Windows Server 2003 with all relevant
    > > WindowsUpdate hotfixes applied, Exchange 2003, EXCH2003 SP1 and
    > > associated hotfixes.
    > >
    > > OWA works like a dream and Exchange works superbly in all other
    > > aspects of its operation, i.e. SMTP, POP3, etc.
    > >
    > > I started to configure OMA as follows:
    > >
    > > Enable the Mobile Access within the ESM Global properties also
    > > allowing unsupported devices - enabled users with AD for Mobile Access
    > >
    > > This gave me a 403 failure after authentication so I read a few
    > > technet articles and removed and reinstalled the .NET framework 1.1
    > > Mobile Device Support 4.0
    > >
    > > This moved me on to an error which basically said that my mailbox
    > > could not be located - back to technet where I found an article
    > > telling me to correct the VirtualDir name in a registry string value.
    > > This value did not exist so I created it which lead me to the
    > > following error:
    > >
    > > Item no longer exists. The item you are attempting to access may have
    > > been deleted or moved.
    > >
    > > Again, I have read many articles within these newsgroups and chased
    > > links to technet articles that dont appear to exist anymore, even
    > > though this product is only a year or so old!!!!
    > >
    > > Anyway, one article I read said that the path for the OMA virtual
    > > directory should point to the same location as the Exchange virtual
    > > directory, something along the lines of
    > > \\.\BackOfficeStorage\mydomain.co.uk\mbx where mydomain.co.uk is the
    > > organisation that I have installed.
    > >
    > > Currently, the path is set to C:\Program Files\Microsoft
    > > Exchange\blah\blah\OMA\browse and I am seeing files in this location.
    > >
    > > When I point the path to \\.\BackOfficeStorage\mydomain.co.uk\mbx
    > > there are no files there and all I get is 404 Page not founds!!
    > >
    > > Does anybody have any idea why this is proving to be such a pain to
    > > get working? Also, can someone shed some light on the missing technet
    > > articles on the MS site?
    > >
    > > Many thanks in advance to anyone who can assist with this, I have no
    > > more hair to pull out!!!

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