Re: SBS 2003 and Outlook RPC over HTTP issues

Ted wrote:

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

From what you have reported it is difficult to say where the issue is
rooted. It may be a certificate issue, but you haven't given enough
detailed information to conclude reliably. Here are some resources that
may help:

Testing RPC over HTTP/S:
http://www.petri.co.il/testing_rpc_over_http_connection.htm
Using RPC Ping Utility to troubleshoot:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831051

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Regards,
Steve.
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