RE: rpc over https

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did you create your own certificate and does the certificate have the corect
common name, menaing the certificate name must be the same name used wen
outlook tries to connect to your exchange server. If you created your own
cert then you msut install this cert on your laptop or ells your computer
wont trust it and you will get prompted for credntials over and over again


"billd" wrote:

> I've made a slight move sideways and I guess a little bit forward on this, I
> found that I didn't have /rpc/* in the Paths in my ISA rule... So that was a
> firewall issue...
>
> Now, I probably have another firewall issue or something anyway, when it
> asks for my password, it just keeps asking and asking, never accepts it.
> Perhaps I should ask in the ISA server newsgroup unless anyone here knows why
> that happens. The article I read on How to configure ISA server 2004 to
> allow for RPC over HTTP client connectins.... states that If the Require all
> users to authenticate check bosx is selected on the web listener, you must
> reconfigure web listern to use basic authentication. Well, mine wasn't
> checked.
>
> OWA is running thru this same conneter and working fine. Logins work fine
> etc.
>
> If this makes any sense to anyone, I'd sure appreciate any pointers at all.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> "billd" wrote:
>
> > been working on this on and off for about a month now, but not making any
> > progress. Everything configured, it works when I am in the office, i've done
> > outlook /rpcdiag and it's connecting via https and working fine on my laptop
> > and workstation in the office. When I take my laptop off the office LAN, it
> > stops working, won't connect. The frontend server is published via ISA
> > server, I can see it hitting the ISA server, but it just keeps doing HTTPS
> > initiated, HTTPS closed over and over and doesn't connect.
> >
> > The windows firewall is enabled on my laptop via GPO when I am cannot
> > connect to our DC. But I wouldn't think that would stop it if all comms are
> > over port 443 would it? Or does Exchange try to connect back to my PC on any
> > RPC ports? Do I need to open up any other ports on my Laptop firewall?
> >
> > This is really driving me crazy at this point, as are all my users who want
> > to use Outlook when they are out of the office.
> >
> > On my workstation I have forced it to connect over fast and slow networks
> > via HTTPS and that's fine, as per starting outlook with the rpcdiag switch,
> > so it's got to be in a firewall thing somewhere I guess. I presume that port
> > 443 is the only port that needs to be published via the ISA server? I didn't
> > do the ISA config, but the guy who did swears it's correct.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
.

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