Re: OWA changing web address
- From: v-terliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Terence Liu [MSFT])
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:44:22 GMT
Hello Customer,
Thank you for posting here. Let's also thank David and Richard for their
input.
According to your description, I understand that I understand that you
would like to access to OWA via the URL http://remote.domain.com instead of
http://remote.domain.com/exchange. If I have misunderstood the problem,
please don't hesitate to let me know.
Based on my research, I suggest we try the following steps to see if we can
resolve this issue:
Step 1: Publish Business Web site (wwwroot) on SBS thru run CEICW
Go through the follow KB and Rerun CEICW carefully.
How to configure Internet access in Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825763/en-us
Detailed steps for your reference:
a. On the SBS 2003 Server open the Server Management console. Go to
Standard Management\To Do List.
b. Click the "Connect to the Internet" link.
c. When navigating to the Firewall page, select "Enable firewall" and click
Next (I suppose you have 2 network adapters in SBS 2003).
d. On the "Services Configuration" page, select all the items and then
click Next.
e. On the "Web Services Configuration" page, make sure "Allow access to the
entire Web site from the Internet" is selected. If you select "Allow access
to only the following Web site services from the Internet", make sure
"Business Web site (wwwroot)" item in the list is selected. Click Next.
f. On the "Web Server Certificate" page, choose to create a new Web server
certificate and then type the public domain name (your public DNS name)
that you will use to access OWA or RWW (for example, if your public domain
name that you use to access the sites is remote.domain.com, you should type
remote.domain.com as the new certificate name).
g. Go through the remaining steps.
Step 2: Redirect Exchange virtual directory in IIS
1. Start IIS Manager
2. Right click on the "Default Web Site" and choose "Properties".
3. Click on the "Home Directory" tab.
4. Change the first option to "A redirection to a URL".
5. Enter "/exchange" in to the box (minus quotes)
6. Change the entry below to "A directory below URL entered".
7. Click Apply/OK.
If you are prompted about changing child objects (Inheritance Overrides
dialog windows), click cancel so that nothing else is changed.
8. Close the IIS Manager.
Then, you can try to access OWA via https://remote.domain.com/ from
external.
If we cannot resolve the issue after we perform the above steps, please
help me collect some information for further investigation:
1. Please collect the MPS Report for Exchange:
a) Download MPSRPT_Exchange.EXE from the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cebf3c7c-7ca5-408f-
88b7-f9c79b7306c0&displaylang=en
b) Double-click the executable file to start the report gathering tool, and
then accept the end-user licensing agreement (EULA). Note Please be patient
while MPS Reports collects data. The tool may appear to stop responding
(hang) because it may take from five to 15 minutes to collect the data.
c)> The tool creates a CAB file named "%COMPUTERNAME%_MPSReports_.CAB" in
the %systemroot%\MPSReports\Setup\Reports\Cab folder. The CAB file contains
the reports that the MPS Reporting Tool generated. If the tool does not
create the CAB file, copy all the files in the
%systemroot%\MPSReport\Setup\Reports folder to a compressed (zipped) file.
Note The %systemroot% folder is the folder where you installed the
operating system. By default, this is the C:\WINDOWS folder.
d) Send me the CAB file or the compressed (zipped) file at:
v-terliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
For more information, please refer to the following article:
818742 Overview of the Microsoft Configuration Capture Utility (MPS_REPORTS)
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=8187423
2. Gather IIS log:
a. Open IIS snap-in.
b. Right click Default Web Site and click Properties.
c. Uncheck the "Enable Logging" box and click Apply.
d. Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1 folder and move all files to a
backup location.
e. Check "Enable Logging" box and click OK.
f. Run IISReset command.
g. Reproduce the problem and send the log file in
C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1 folder to me for research.
3. Gather IIS Metabase:
1) Download the IIS Resource Kit tools from the following page:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=56FC92EE-A71A-4C73-
B628-ADE629C89499&displaylang=en
2) Install it, run MBExplorer (Metabase Explorer)
3) Right click the "LM" node and choose "Export to file".
4) Specify a file name, specify the password and finish the export.
5) Send the file and the password to v-terliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I hope these steps will give you some help.
Thanks and have a nice day!
Best regards,
Terence Liu(MSFT)
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| From: "David Barnes" <david at bitsolve dot com .nospam.ignore.net>
| References: <1188967796.687852.150420@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Subject: Re: OWA changing web address
| Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 11:22:00 +0100
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| 1/ Not recomended as this requires you enable the 'wwwroot' web site.
| 2/ Not realy possible, as the web site (root) is already in use and you
| cannot re-locate the exchange site there (don't think it'd work either)
| 3/ it's httpS:// (if you connect to http it redirects you to https)
|
| But since you ask.
| Run CEICW and enable the 'Business Web site (wwwroot)'. Do not change any
| other settings.
| This will open up your root web site, which is intended [by the SBS
| design/dev team] for internal use only, to anonymous access to anyone
| (including hackers).
| Editing the file "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\default.htm" will allow you to put a
| link to exchange, or a redirect, but this file (because it is part of the
| SBS core setup) will probably get replaced by some wizard or system
update.
| [Anyone else got any experience of what happens to mods in this file??]
|
| Why for you want to do this? Academic interest? or have you some other
| (user-driven) reason?
|
| The easiest route I can think of is to have a seperate web site on an
alias
| dns name and using host header. the default page then automatically
| redirects the user.
| EG:
| DNS cname mail.domain.com = remote.domain.com
| (in IIS Manager) create a new web site under "Web Sites" and enter the
'Host
| header' as mail.domain.com
| create the file default.htm in this new site and set it to divert to
| https://remote.domain.com/exchange
| To save you hunting for the redirect solution, add the following to the
| <HEAD> section:
| <META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;
| URL=https://remote.domain.com/exchange";>
|
| Hope this helps get you started.
|
| Others in this group should have more detailed experience...
| Anyone got any better (cleaner) solutions?
| Anyone know the dependencies of the wwwroot default.htm and when it will
get
| updated?
| Anyone know what happens if you move exchange (OWA) from the \exchange
| sub-web to the root? [I think it will break, but not 100% on that]
|
| David Barnes
|
|
| "mrwiegand" <nick.wiegand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:1188967796.687852.150420@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > My OWA works as such http://remote.domain.com/exchange
| >
| > How can i get it to work for http://remote.domain.com
| >
| > I get the certificate and then you are not authorized to view this
| > page.
| >
| > Thanks in advance
| >
|
|
|
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