Re: OWA (Outlook Web Access) Domain Problem

You will need to have SSL setup on your Server to secure (encrypt) your
username and passwords when Authenticating to your OWA Server. You can
create your own Cert or do what I prefer, purchase a third party Cert. I
like www.instantssl.com, good support and very inexpensive.

--
John Oliver, Jr.
MCSE, MCT, CCNA, Exchange MVP
Microsoft Certified Partner

"Jason" <Jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7DB13630-E60E-4A05-8C01-21BB1E966991@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Jim,
>
> Yes I am using Basic. I do not believe SSL is setup.
>
> I see that "Windows Integrated Authentication" (whatever that is) is
> checked
> on, so I checked it off and that did the trick.
>
> However, I am now concerned with security. I do not know what the
> implications of these settings are.
>
> Thank you,
> Jason
>
>
>
> "Jason" wrote:
>
>> We have an in-house Exchange 2000 SP3 on a Windows 2000 Server SP4.
>>
>> Our internal domain is "corporate" (fully being "corporate.local").
>> Our external domain is "wifr.net". So for user "Joe Smit"h, his email
>> address is "jsmith@xxxxxxxx" .
>>
>> When Joe Smith goes to "www.wifr.net/exchange", he logs in with his login
>> user name which is dept_js and keys his password. Immediately the
>> authentication screen comes back with username populated as
>> "wifr.net\dept_js", thereby rejecting the original username. This is not
>> the
>> expected behavior. What Joe Smith has to do now is key in the username
>> "corporate\dept_js" and his password, then he can get into OWA just fine.
>> Or, he can type "dept_js@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" and that works too.
>>
>> We had this working to where Joe Smith would key in "dept_js" and it
>> would
>> log him in correctly to OWA without the internal domain being specified.
>>
>> It seems that Exchange is attempting to use our external domain
>> "wifr.net"
>> as the domain that the user logs into. This was not happening about 2
>> weeks
>> ago. In the last 2 weeks I believe I have updated the server with the
>> most
>> recent set of Critical Updates. I believe this may have reset something
>> but
>> this is only a hunch.
>>
>> I did some research. I found this MS KB article:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2000/support/trowae2k.mspx
>>
>> I tried some of what it suggested but there was no change as I am still
>> having this problem.
>>
>> Where can I change the default domain for OWA??????????
>> I have users all over the place ringing my phone every time they try to
>> get
>> into OWA and these particular users don't catch on very fast...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jason A.
>> fyi, all domain and user data is example data only, and is NOT the actual
>> data used.


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