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Cannot access Outlook web access outside of organization

What would i need to do to enable my users to access their exchange mail remotely? I installed owa admin on my 2003 server which exchange is running on as well. I can use OWA within my organization but outside i cannot. i have port 8080 fowarding on my router since my port 80 is being used by another server. all my mx records and a records are correct since i can send and recieve email and access the internet... can someone please help?!!! Thanks....

please note that i typed in http://mail.servername.com/exchange/username when i access the exchange server within my lan.

Yan_west

Use your OWA with SSL on port 443, and foward all request on port 443 on your firewall to your exchange server, That is what I do, and it'S working fine..

If you still cannot do anything, check out if you are using URLscan or if you ran the IIS Lockdown wizard. these things cause alot of problems on OWA.

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jvu1275

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can you give me a step by step... i am very new at working with networks... thanks

ecallaw

Go to your router or firewall and forward port 443 (HTTPS - required for login to OWA) to the IP address of your Exchange Server.
Then on your Web server put a link on the website to point to the exchange webfolder on the Exchange server, eg
http://(Exchange Server IP Address)/exchange

When someone hits your website from outside, they will click the OWA link (given above) and be asked for their domain username and password to enter their OWA account.

crazijoe

Is the link suppose to be

https://(Exchange Server IP)/exchange
or
http://(Exchange Server IP)/exchange