How do you get Outlook Web Access to work ??????

[markjrees]

We've been trying for about 2 weeks to get OWA configured so it can be accessed from outside the office network.

We have a Windows 2000 web server running NAT on which we have configured a Special Port to forward port 80 traffic onto our Exchange server.

From what we've read on posts on here etc that is all that is needed.

When we open a browser and enter

http://staticipaddressofwebserver/exchange

nothing happens - eventually we get a page cannot be displayed message.

We can't find any other useful resources to acomplish the above - everything states that you just need to forward port 80 traffic and essentially that's it.

can anyone offer any further advice??

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[Marcs41]

Indeed, for unsecure access, all you need is port 80.

Form the outside, you would surf to

http://yourdoamin/Exchange

or

http://yourWANip/Exchange.

If you change the default port 80 into let's say 2280, it would be

http://yourWANip:2280/Exchange

Of course, it has to get back to, so the default gateway from the Exchange server must be pointing to the same point the request came in.

Some articles you may have seen already:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280823

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...65-a04e-43ca-8220-859212411e10&DisplayLang=en

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/OWA2003Forms-based-Authentication-default-domain.html

Marc
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[ouzojd]

We use

https://mailserver/exchange

where as you had http:, the other thing is if you are using 2000 client you get prompted for username, pw, domain, XP it will just be username and pw so for the username enter domain\username.

Cheers.

 

[Marcs41]

ouzojd, http is correct, since he is using port 80, or a substitute for it.

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