Re: SBS 2003 and Outlook RPC over HTTP issues

port 80 has to be open so users can get webmail, otherwise how in Gods earth
are they going to get remote mail? i havent had any issues port forwarding
this to my server it works fine, anytime a port is open it leaves a security
risk. anytime a new user is assigned an account its a security risk,
any...need i go on...



"Colin" wrote:

Hi,

I haven't got the answer to your problem but I'd strongly recommend closing
port 80 on your firewall, it is definitely not needed and only lowers your
security.

Regards Colin.

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

SBS 2003 that has been running for 3 years with minimal issues. I have
setup SBS and configured exchange on this machine years ago. Recently I
tried to configure an Outlook 2003 client on Winxp with all updates to
connect via RPC over HTTP with no luck.

I have about 20 of these SBS machines at other locations and have never
had
an issue getting RPC over HTTP to work. I re-ran the email connection
wizard
with no luck. Checked all ports on the firewall and 80 & 443 are
forwarding
to the server. I can initiate a session via HTTP only which works fine.
However I can not get RPC to work. I have tried this on several machines
and it is most definitely something that is screwed up on the server. I
know
for a fact that at one point this was working. I did install CRM about 2
years ago but the customer didnt want to use this after a while so I
uninstalled this. I am thinking that the CRM did something to my box but
I
cannot seem to figure this out. I even tried my own laptop which I use to
test other customers machines with no luck. I am also unable to get any
windows mobile devices to connect either. It may be an issue with my
certificate, authentication is setup correctly. I checked the RPC
permissions in IIS and it is setup to use basic authentication for RPC
requests.

Any ideas? Both the server 2003 and the XP pro clients are fully patched,
office 2003 is up to SP3. I have also tried to run from a Vista client
with
office 2007 and it still is failing. The windows mobile device is version
5
with activesynch.

Any help is appreciated greatly...

Ted

.

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