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How to enable OWA access with Exchange 2007 and Windows SBS2008

Asked by: Nilesh8167

I have just installed SBS 2008 and everything is working correct except OWA.  SBS 2008 creates a http://remote.mydomain.com, I can access OWA from my internal network but when I use the external url, I get the IIS 7.0 welcome screen.  How do I publish my OWA so that I can it from any machine outside of our network?

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2008-11-25 at 08:25:48ID23934504
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Answers

 

by: cyberaPosted on 2008-11-25 at 08:40:29ID: 23035835

dude! make sure you have port 80 and 443 being mapped to the server on your router.

the steps:
1) find out your WAN IP : go to whatismyip.com
2) go to your router, map port 80 and 443 to your local SBS server.
3) sign up for a dyndns or no-ip dynamic ip updater service
4) try to access using the WAN IP or dynamic IP client name: https://(type name here)/owa

you should be able to login now.. cheers!

 

by: Nilesh8167Posted on 2008-11-25 at 13:57:21ID: 23038041

1.  Both port 80 and 443 are open and mapped to my server on the router

I think you may have misunderstand the problem.  I can type https://dyndnsdomain.org/owa and am redirected to my server.  The trouble is I dont get the login screen, I get a website with IIS 7.0 and lots of welcome message in different languages.  How do I publish my owa to IIS?

 

by: TechSoEasyPosted on 2008-12-17 at 12:08:33ID: 23197426

OWA is configured automatically as long as you have completed the setup wizards on your SBS.

If OWA is still not working, In the Windows SBS Console, click on "Shared Folders and Web Sites" > Web Sites Tab.

Under Windows SBS Web Sites, click on Outlook Web Access. If the status shows "Offline", click on "Enable this site" in the right side task pane.

If it shows status of "Online" but you still can't access the site, go to the Network Tab and run the "Fix my Network" wizard.

Jeff
TechSoEasy

 

by: Nilesh8167Posted on 2008-12-18 at 10:52:30ID: 23206194

I now have it working but it turns out that it's to do with the A record setting at my ISP.  SBS 2008 works well if you use an ISP that Microsoft Supports otherwise you end up doing everything manually but there is little MS documentation on what needs to get dont.  Any managed to find a blog online, ensured everything was done and it's been working ever since.  

I also discovered an interesting issue, SBS 2003 detected my old Netgear using uPnP and opened the appropriate ports, with SBS 2008 it doesn't find the router and end up configuring the router manually.  Trouble is that when I run the Fix my network wizard it says one of the ports is not open even though I have verified they are using a port probe site.  

 

by: TechSoEasyPosted on 2008-12-18 at 12:18:30ID: 23206915

There is VERY good documentation for this both on your server and on TechNet (the documentation is the same).

Please see "If you choose to manage the domain name yourself, you must add the DNS resource records that are listed in the following table." on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc546055.aspx

Regarding the appropriate ports. I had an earlier problem with this, but it was supposed to be corrected in the RTM version. Are you using that?

Jeff
TechSoEasy

 

by: Nilesh8167Posted on 2008-12-18 at 13:03:32ID: 23207380

I am using the RTM version but it might have slipped through.

 

by: TechSoEasyPosted on 2008-12-18 at 17:27:54ID: 23209549

Depending on how old the Netgear router is, or if its a consumer model (the plastic ones as opposed to the blue metal ones) then the schema might not be available for SBS to configure it.

Jeff
TechSoEasy

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