IIS 5.0 (windows 2000sp4 Exch 2000 sp3) Internet Service Manager aexp2b.htr versus aexp.htr pertaining to domain password change

Hi all,

Exchange 2000sp3, running on Windows 2000sp4, which I believe means IIS 5.0 (please correct me if that is not neccessarily the case).

OWA configuration works, OWA change password works.  When a user is connected over SSL and manually chooses to change their password, the Change Password window appears the Exchange 2000/OWA server prepopulates the information with correct data.

   Example:

 Internet Service Manager
for Internet Information Server 5.0

      Domain:   COMPANY
      Account:   FLastname
      Old Password:  blank
      New Password:  blank
      Confirm New:  blank

This is all fine and dandy. The window in which this appears is generated by the file aexp2b.htr. There is no address bar, no tool bar, no links, no standard buttons, just a pre-sized window that has the above example text in it with three buttons, Ok, Cancel, and Reset.

Now, when I set a user's password to expire, or the domain decides that it is time for a user's password to expire, I get a different window, that is generated by the file aexp.htr. This window is not pre-sized, has all the toolbars of a normal Internet Explorer session, and has different text and text boxes in it:

Example:

     Internet Service Manager
     for Internet Information Server 5.0

     Your password has expired. You can change it now.

     Account  
     Old password  
     New password  
     Confirm new password  

    OK    Cancel      Reset

Notice that there is no Domain field, only an account field. This is the first frustration. XP users would not have an issue with this, but most of my users are Windows 2000 users. The second issue is that none of the information pre-fills like it does when the user chooses to change their password. The user has to enter in their account information anyway, so we need to assume that this is a secure connection, as I force SSL for all connections.

Here is my question. If I take the contents of aexp2b.htr and replace it with the contents of aexp.htr, will I break anything or cause any ill effects with OWA or IIS in general? I am assuming that if I do this, all of my issues listed above will go away, but I don't want to cause problems or unexpected results.

Finally, as an aside, I actually edited the text.htr file to say Internet Information Server 5.0, because for some reason it was saying Internet Information Server 6.0. DId this happen because of a service pack? I was under the impression that IIS 6.0 was ONLY available if you purchase Windows 2003 Server...

Thanks,

JonathanStart Free Trial