Re: Publish OWA on SBS premium (FBA)

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Hi again,

Right, after a long arguement with the firewall people that is now resolved
so back to OWA. I have done as you suggested and just used the SBS Internet
connection wizard to generate the ISA rules but now when i go to
https://internetip/exchange i get the correct OWA logon screen but then when
i log in with valid credentials i get a screen with just this on it:

" Unknown Request
The request could not be resolved by the server."

The url it is failing on is https://internetip/CookieAuth.dll?Logon

Any suggestions?

Thanks again
Chris

"ChrisW (MCP)" wrote:

Hmm well ours didnt seem to work as well as it should of then. ISA always
seems a bit tempermental to me, dont know if its just me. Some bits work
great all the time and other bits can sometimes take a minute and sometimes
take an hour to setup. Anyway like I said ill update this once the firewall
has been opened. Thanks

Chris

"ChrisW (MCP)" wrote:

Thats in the exchange properties though yes? not in ISA server. Apparently
its meant to be configured via ISA. Anyway after editing the sbs web listener
in ISA to use forms based auth and restarting IIS I was able to access OWA
from external PC but it did not bring up the normal OWA logon screen, it just
had the little windows login box. I was going to continue testing and
changing but the people who configured the hardware firewall seem to of
decided to block every port we asked them to open recently again :S So after
another 5 hours trying to figure out why we cant get remote access at all
anymore it looks like we have to wait until monday to speak to the firewall
people. Thanks anyway, Ill let you know how its going once the firewall is
opened up again.

Cheers,
Chris

"Jeff Teel" wrote:

I just looked at my default SBS install and forms based authentication is
what it is using for Exchange's Outlook Web access.

Jeff

"ChrisW (MCP)" <ChrisWMCP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for that. Although that does give access to OWA from the outside it
does not use forms based auth which is what we were really trying to
acheive. I have tried changing the sbs web listener it created to use
forms
based auth instead of ntegrated but now when i enter my username and pass
on
OWA it says "Unknown Request
The request could not be resolved by the server." Any suggestions?


Chris

"Cris Hanna (SBS-MVP)" wrote:

Let me guess Chris...this is your first small business server?
You usually do the big enterprise stuff?...forget everything you know

If you've installed ISA from the Premium Technologies Disc
Then just run the connect to the Internet Wizard from the To Do List in
the Server Management Console
Answer the questions and voila...it works

Assuming you have the proper A records out there for DNS... it should
just be like http://servername.domainname.com/exchange

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"ChrisW" <ChrisW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

We have just installed an SBS 2003 premium server and want to get forms
based auth working through it for OWA. I have followed countless guides
and
instructions but these all seem to be for standard server 2003 (and
assume
that you have a seperate exchange and ISA server) so I was wondering if
maybe
I need to do things differently. Does anyone have a link to a guide on
how to
do this with sbs2003 premium?

After installing certificate services and setting up the correct ISA
listeners and rules the message I get when trying to access the owa
page from
external is: the principal name did not match. I know this means that
something on the certificate does not match the site address/details
but
after trying a hell of a lot of different things we are running out of
ideas.
Any help much appreciated. Please let me know if I have not provided
enough
info. Oh one other thing is that at the moment we are trying to use
just
https://IP/exchange (where IP is the clients internet IP obviously),
will
this work just as well as domain name or could this be what causes some
problems? I have tried adding host entry on my test external PC and
using a
domain name but this seems to do just the same.

Thanks,
Chris



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