Outlook Web Access, subdomain? 1

[jedholm]

Hello,
I am running Server 2003 enterprise with exchange 2003 on a fairly large network. This is the only server running on the network that handles web and email applications. It is also the AD server. Anyway, users on the network complain about having to use

https://domain.com/Exchange

when wanting to use Outlook Web Access. I would like to know if I can make

https://mail.domain.com

point to OWA. I have seen this done at a few places but have never known how. I know it involves IIS, and I probably have to make a new site. But I do not know where to go from there. Can someone give me some instructions?

 

[hunterdw]

Hmmm..

The way I do it...

In DNS (not AD DNS, but IANA DNS) my users were used to going to:

http://mail.domain.com/exchange

All I did was in IIS, I created a new website, looked for the header of "mail.domain.com" and then permanently redirected it to the

http://mail.domain.com/exchange

URL.

Works for me.

 

[jedholm]

Thank you for your quick response. That did work. Now I have another question, can I rename the hostname exchange uses? It is not currently 'mail' and it would be nice to have it more standard that way.

 

[jpm121]

Unless you're hosting your DNS on the active directory machine and not at your ISP or somewhere else, you can create an A record to point to the exchange box and call it anything you want to -- pickle.yourdomain.com would work. Just set up IIS like hunter said.

Actually, I think you could even do it with AD DNS, I just prefer not to expose AD to the internet.

 

[markdmac]

You will probably want to set it up also so that if a user tries to go to

HTTP://URL

instead of

HTTPS://URL

that they get redirected to HTTPS.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555126

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[jedholm]

Thank you everyone. All of your responses have helped.