Re: Internal / External DNS problem.

In news:8A5C29E0-3946-42D9-922E-F4BF1844AB8C@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Adrian Coles <AdrianColes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Sorry if this comes up twice, but it just asked me to log in again
and then all i got was the original message, not mine...

No, didn't see another reply. The web interface stinks....you might want to
consider using a newsreader like Outlook Express or Forte Agent instead.
Besides being more reliable, iit's a lot easier to do nearly everything
there, including the ability to mark messages to be watched, and filter
based on replies to your posts. The Microsoft public news server is
msnews.microsoft.com and you can subscribe to as many groups as you like.

But I digress.


Anyway...

When you ran the setup for the internet connection, did you create a
certificate?

Yes

What name did you give the certificate? it should be mycompany.com
(ideally, I'd recommend using mail or remote or
something.mycompany.com)

I used companyname.mycompany.co.uk

and
not the .local name. This was unclear to me when I first started
using HTTPS for Outlook.

Definately didn't use the .local name...

How can I check the details of my certificate?
The issued to, issued by and certification path all show
companyname.mycompany.co.uk

Once you generate the proper certificate, browse to
http://servername/remote, login, select the "Configure your computer
to use Outlook via the Internet" link, check the following:

I get this page ok...

Verify that the computer trusts the certificate used by the server
1) Open Internet Explorer, and then in the address bar type:
https://mycompany.com/remote
Mine actually shows https://mail.mycompany.com/remote (I replaced my
actual domain name with "mycompany.com" in this example.

I get the same pages as above using
https://companyname.mycompany.co.uk/remote

Good. Then your certificate is probably fine. You can check it out if you
open the cert properties in /exchange or /remote, btw.

If the instructions don't show your PUBLIC FQDN for the servers
address then your not using the proper name on your cert and Outlook
over HTTPS instructions will not be correct.

As far as I know, I am doing everything right, but I still can't get
in to Outlook without using the Hosts file trick.

Do you have a test computer you can use? WinXP SP2, OL2003 SP2.
Set up a brand new profile, using myservername.mycompany.local.
Use cached mode.
More settings, connections, tick RPC/HTTP, go into the proxy settings and
use mycompany.mydomain.com - and the mutually authenticate thing, set to
msstd:mycompany.mydomain.com
Tick the box so that fast connections use RPC and then TCP/IP.

Open Outlook. Enter your credentials (and notice that the servername should
be your *internal* name). See whether it connects. If so, hold CTRL and
click the Outlook icon as mentioned earlier.

I am nervous about posting servernames anywhere

Well, I guess I can appreciate your concern, but I've never viewed a domain
name, or IP addresses, as being particularly confidential information,
potentially dangerous to post. You receive internet mail, right? Maybe your
company even has a website? People know your e-mail address, they know your
domain, they khow to find your server. We're probably more trustworthy in
here than most groups you might post to, and I personally would just go
ahead and post the domain name if I were you (unless I didn't have a
firewall, but that would be another problem).

but am willing to
email the Using outlook via the Internet page and the certificate to
you guys if it helps...?

I don't do this sort of thing via e-mail, sorry - prefer to keep everything
in the group.


(I bet you are wishing you had never replied in the first place
now...)

Naw, not at all.


.

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