Re: OWA and ISA

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I figured it out. I turned off form-based authentication because I do not
have Exchange SP1 installed and no hotfix for it.

Thanks

""Charles Yang [MSFT]"" <v-chayan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B6Ra4TkSFHA.4172@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi Tim,
>
> Welcome to the SBS newsgroup. Allen thanks a lot for updates.
>
> According to your description, I understand that you encountered a problem
> when accessing the OWA outside the domain. If it is not your concerns,
> please let me know.
>
> Before we go any further, could you paste the detailed error message when
> you access the OWA outside the domain.
>
> Generally speaking, CEICW will automatically configure ISA to open the
> necessary ports and publish the web services such as OWA so that internal
> users can access the Internet and external users can access the SBS 2003
> services. You do not need to manually configure ISA server.
>
> In order to isolate the issue, I would suggest you perform the following
> steps to publish OWA and check if you can access it:
>
> 1. Run the CEICW wizard at the server console..
> 2. Choose not to change the connection type and click Next. On the
> Firewall
> page, select "Enable firewall" and click Next.
> 3. On the "Services Configuration" page, you can select the items so that
> ISA can allow the appropriate connections. I would suggest you select all
> the items and then click Next.
> 4. On the "Web Services Configuration" page, make sure the the "Outlook
> Web
> Access" item is selected. Click Next.
> 5. On the "Web Server Certificate" page, choose to create a new Web server
> certificate and then type the public FQDN that you use to access OWA (for
> example, if your public FQDN you ISP creates for you is mail.domain.com,
> you should type mail.domain.com as the new certificate name). If you
> already requested a certificate with the name "mail.domain.com" from a
> third party CA, you can choose "Use a Web server certificate from a
> trusted
> authority" and then import the certificate.
> 6. Go through the remaining steps. The wizard will automatically configure
> the SBS 2003 Basic Firewall to securely publish the two sites.
> 7. Configure your hardware firewall or router to forward inbound traffic
> on
> TCP port 80 and 443 to the SBS server's external address.
> 8. Then check if you can access OWA using
> https://mail.domain.com/exchange.
>
> You can refer to a KB below for more detailed information about configure
> the CEICW:
>
> 825763 How to configure Internet access in Windows Small Business Server
> 2003
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=825763
>
> As you have router on the domain, I suggest you follow the hardware manual
> to confirm your router setting. If the issue still exists, please perform
> the test below:
>
> 1. Could you test if you can access the RWW outside the domain, you can
> access the RWW through https://server public ip/remote.
> 2. Could you also temporally remove the hardware router as a test to see
> if
> the issue still exists? Please rerun the CEICW after removing the router.
> 3. Could you tell us the method you access the OWA outside the domain, by
> public IP or by a FQDN name.
> 4. Please also connect one of the client computer to the external NIC of
> the SBS 2003 as a test to see if you can access the OWA to see the
> results.
>
>
> I appreciate your taking the time to perform the tests. Please paste your
> results as your earliest convenience. I am here waiting for your updates.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles Yang (MSFT)
>
> Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support
>
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