RE: Need assistance with Outlook over Internet config.

Hi Terence,

I followed your steps, thankyou.
I did not create a new web server certificate as there was an existing one.

When trying https://mail.companydomain.com/remote from external PC, the
browser simply responds that 'Page cannot be

displayed'.
This happens on all external clients.

Outside the SBS external Nic we do also have an additional firewall that is
mantained by our ISP. We have confirmed so far

that port 443 and 4125 is open and forwards traffic via these ports to the
SBS external Nic, where the connection gets denied

(as per ISA2004 monitoring).
Even after enabling all firewall options in the CEICW wizard, the external
Nic on SBS box still does not allow this traffic

through. Can't connect to 443 and 4125 via telnet either.



"Terence Liu [MSFT]" wrote:

Hello Tony,

Thank you for posting here.

According to your description, I understand that you want to setup RPC over
HTTP on your SBS, but you unable to get the RWW from external. 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:

1. Please enable your RWW is working properly from internal. Please access
the RWW from internal clients via https://SBSname/remote/

2. Please run the CEICW to publish the RWW to external.

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

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.

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 all
items in the list are 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 (mail.company.com) that
you will use to access OWA and RWW.

g. Go through the remaining steps.

Then, try to access RWW from external via
https://mail.companyweb.com/remote/

3. Ensure you forward the TCP port 443 and 4125 from router to SBS external
NIC. Please contact your router vendor for help.

If we cannot resolve the issue after we perform the steps above, please
help me collect some information for further investigation:

1. What error do you get when you try to access RWW from external? Please
capture screenshots of the error page and send the pictures to me at
v-terliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

2. Does this issue happen on all external clients?

I hope these steps will give you some help.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Best regards,

Terence Liu (MSFT)

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I'm running SBS2003 Premium edition and have ISA2004 configured using 2
nics.

I want to use my Outlook 2003 over the internet but have not been able to
get it running yet.

So far I've run CEICW and enabled 'Outlook over HTTP' option and also
created a self signed certificate: mail.company.com.

I noticed the new publishing rule for 'Outlook over Http' created in ISA
and
verified that it is indeed enabled.

When I type 'https://mail.company.com/remote' from a browser over the
internet, there is no repsonse. Even by replacing the 'mail.company.com'
with
the public IP address directly does not work.

Also tried 'Telnet <public IP> 443' from DOS, the ISA 2004 logs still
shows
that the connection was denied.

Why is ISA not letting this through?
Do I also really need to get my ISP to create an A-record for
mail.company.com?

Please advise.
Thanks.



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