Authenticate to the web interface? 1

[Ayac]

Hi all,

I have to create a custom webpage that has a login and a password box and it can authenticate a user to his/her mailbox. Basically I want to eliminate that ugly popup window that comes in when you hit the secure, Windows password protected address. I code in ASP 3.0, we have Win2003,IIS6 and Exchange Server 2003.

Is there a way to do that?

 

[rye8261]

You can turn on the form-based authentication. It will look like this:

http://www.neramano.com/OWA-Premium.jpg

To turn on form-based authentication look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555053

http://www.techtidbits.net/html/owa_security.html

 

[Ayac]

Thank you Sir! It was very helpful!

 

[xmsre]

When you turn on forms based authentication, all is well if you use the NT style domain\user or W2K style user@domain.com logon. If you just put the alias, you'll be tempted to fill in the default domain when you set basic authentication. It doesn't work. In this case, you need to alter the logon.asp page to tack on the domain name:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;820378