Need help setting up OWA (outlook web access)
I have been maintaining my companies exchange server for several years and have had to set up a couple of different exchange servers over the years as well. I have never gotten into web access though, but recently this feature has been requested.
Looking through the settings in exchange it seems as though things are set up. I can not seem to access OWA outside of the company though. I am assuming that I am missing something that is probably pretty basic. Internally I can connect to OWA by using http://ip.address/exchange (http://192.168.1.5/exchange for example). We do not currently host our own website on this server but I am willing to purchase a domain and link it to this server if that is necessary.
what address are you connecting to externally for owa ?is it the external ip address of the firewall ?
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I am not connecting to it externally at all right now --- I have attempted to use the external static IP for our server, but that did not work.
are you using http://externalip/exchange as the format
You don't have to purchase another domain name. Just get your web hosting company or domain name registrar to create another host in your domain and point it at your external IP address.
Make sure that the relevant ports are open on the firewall - 80 for http and 443 for https.
Simon.
Make sure that the relevant ports are open on the firewall - 80 for http and 443 for https.
Simon.
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Sembee -- will that affect the site hosting? We do not want to change the site host at this time. Are you saying that it is possible to have the main url stay the same and point to ISP's server and add link to the OWA which will redirect it to our server instead of our ISP's server?
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poweruser32 -- at this time I am not connecting to the OWA externally, that is the problem that I am having. internally I can only connect by IP:
http://192.168.1.5/exchange
http://192.168.1.5/exchange
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the ports are open -- not sure how to check the pointing to the IP address.
That is something you have to look at in the firewall configuration. You may also want to look to see if there is any logging capability so that you can see if the traffic was getting to the firewall and was then being "lost".
Simon.
Simon.
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sembee -- I will check into this, thank you for the tips