RE: RPC over HTTP Certificate Issue

Hi,

There's no need to configure Exchange - whatever changes you made, reverse
them. Use the CEICW and enable Outlook over the Internet (this will configure
Exchange for you).

Have you allowed HTTPS (port 443) through your firewall to your SBS NIC ?

When you installed the certificate, did you install it in the Trusted Root
Certification Authorities' folder ? Trusted 'anything else' won't work.

Regards Colin.

"freakrz@xxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

Hi,

I enabled RPC over HTTP on SBS 2003 Sp1 server, and followed the
instructions to configure exchange as in here

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995729.aspx


But now on the client side ,Outllok can't connect. When it starts -
comes up
with a message:

"'The connection to the Microsoft Exchange server is
unavailable.Outlook must
be online or connected to complete this action.'

'Unable to open your default email folders. The information store
could be
opened' "

I tried to connect https://FQDN/Remote from the client and i get a
security certificate
I installed the certificate in trused certificates,
even after that i am getting a security alert

"The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the
name of the site.

we use dyndns to access our server,since we do not have a static
ip,and the certificate has our server name on
it"servername.domain.local" but our web address is "abc.dyndns.org"

Is this a possible reason for outlook not connecting over http.

i have checked it internally within our LAN and it worked.but over the
internet i could not get it to work.
the server side config seems to be all set and working,

since all the diagnosis tests to check rpc over http showed positive
results.

I have checked all the below and everything is configured.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124649.aspx

o How to Verify That RPC over HTTP Support Is Installed
o How to Verify That World Wide Web Publishing Service Is
Running
o How to Verify That SSL Certificate Is Installed on RPC
Proxy Server
o How to Verify RPC Virtual Directory Configuration
o How to Verify That RPC Proxy Server Extension Is Loading
Properly
o How to Verify Client Computer Configuration
o How to Verify Exchange Server 2003 Port Configuration

could someone please clarify if there would be a problem related to
the certificate,as i have stumbled across some websties pointing that
outlook would not connect if a security alert relating to the
certificate pop's

How should i go about this issue,since we use dyndns...!

Thank You

Frk.


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