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Yes, IIS is the culprit thats failing. IIS logs show some RPC traffic, but
Active Synch totally stops. Can I increase IIS buffers, or jack it up with
steroids in some way?

I've run OWA for years, with out major issue. The smartphones and RPC are
new ( to me ) and thats why I suspect them. Owa and Owa admin, etc all fail,
no IIS page is served.

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

So to cut through the lengthy tome you can remove the ISA part since
this is only affecting Exchange? You can remove everthing about
smartphones and all the rest of it, including RPC over HTTPS.

So, your simple question goes:

"Every so often I cannot access OWA on my single Exchange server"

From that we need to troubleshoot the IIS. What is happening and being
logged. Do all your tests purely from the inside and test OWA without
the SSL. If you say that all services are failing, SMTP, WWW etc then
check there rather than focus on Exchange.


On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:51:01 -0700, plysaker
<plysaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just trying to get attention. I've posted this 5 times, and have only had 1
response, which was a "me 2"

So, instead of flaming me, how about helping me?

"plysaker" wrote:

Single EX-2003 SP2, running on 2003, SP2, current on all updates, have
Veritas 10.d installed as well as the Veritas CPS agent.

I have an ISA 2004 Appliance with forms based auth, RPC rules, etc. All
works great 10+ smartphones synching, and 7+ Outlook clients connecting via
RPC o’v HTTP it works great.

Until it doesn’t.

multiple times now its stopped working. ISA side is fine, I can see the
Authentication form, it seems that all other IIS services fail, without any
log errors, they just hang / stop serving pages I can not recycle via an
IISRESET, or a simple stop/start of the default web. Exchange services
bounce, no joy. I don't know what else to bounce.


I am forced to reboot.

It seems that the IIS element might be okay, ( at least it restarts) but
what’s broken, is what FEEDS the IIS information, from Exchange. Perhaps
The Virt Dir? Os Is that the MTA?? or what? However, localhost browses do
not serve up pages. Again, IIS successfully resets but is completely dead

All Internal Mapi Thick Client Outlook connections are fine. Remote RPC
clients have to VPN, and then RPC switches over to TCP.

I'm looking for the way you can fully stop start what ever it is thats
broken, without having to reboot. Or better, increase turn on Logging for
Active Synch, and increase the resilience of whatever is breaking. I can't
find much on the web, as I am unsure what is actually hanging on me in the
first place




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