OWA Redirection
Hey all,
I am currently trying to set up a redirection for my owa users. I have tried several ms articles and a ton of links from this wonderfull site. Still can't get it cookin.
I am trying to allow my clients that type http://mail.mycompany.com to be redirected to https://mail.mycompany.com. SSL is working. Forms based is enabled. If I type in https://mail.mycompany.com everyhthing works great. When I type http://mail.mycompany.com I get and error page cannot be displayed. Any help would be appreciated Thanks
I am currently trying to set up a redirection for my owa users. I have tried several ms articles and a ton of links from this wonderfull site. Still can't get it cookin.
I am trying to allow my clients that type http://mail.mycompany.com to be redirected to https://mail.mycompany.com. SSL is working. Forms based is enabled. If I type in https://mail.mycompany.com everyhthing works great. When I type http://mail.mycompany.com I get and error page cannot be displayed. Any help would be appreciated Thanks
ikm7176
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jkm7176,
Thanks for the reply, this is one of the articles I followed to a "T" and still nothing. After I followed that article I got the page cannot be displayed and not the ssl required error.
Thanks for the reply, this is one of the articles I followed to a "T" and still nothing. After I followed that article I got the page cannot be displayed and not the ssl required error.
Not the answer you want to hear, but I don't bother with redirection.
What you should be looking at is blocking port 80 at the firewall. You don't want anonymous traffic coming in and attacking the site.
What I do when the client insists on being able to type something.domain.com (ie no /exchange and no https) is put something on to the public web site. Create a new directory called mail and then put a single html file in there that redirects to the https version of the link. So http://www.domain.com/mail directs to https://mail.domain.com/exchange
That means you can increase the security of the network by blocking port 80 and they get an easy to remember URL.
Simon.
What you should be looking at is blocking port 80 at the firewall. You don't want anonymous traffic coming in and attacking the site.
What I do when the client insists on being able to type something.domain.com (ie no /exchange and no https) is put something on to the public web site. Create a new directory called mail and then put a single html file in there that redirects to the https version of the link. So http://www.domain.com/mail directs to https://mail.domain.com/exchange
That means you can increase the security of the network by blocking port 80 and they get an easy to remember URL.
Simon.
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Sembee,
I would agree with you 100% unfortunatly this is a large school district....staff have shortcuts created to mail.mydomain.com on home computers...along with upper administration. I already recieved a huge backlash about the form based logon screen and the https address when I sent out notification about the change.
Any who.... can you clarify a bit for me, what would a add to the html file that would do the redirection?
I would agree with you 100% unfortunatly this is a large school district....staff have shortcuts created to mail.mydomain.com on home computers...along with upper administration. I already recieved a huge backlash about the form based logon screen and the https address when I sent out notification about the change.
Any who.... can you clarify a bit for me, what would a add to the html file that would do the redirection?
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Also don't forget that you are a school which makes you a target for some unpleasant people. Here in the UK I tell anyone from a school that they only have to mention one word as being part of the reason and they can do almost what they like. Four letters, starts with p, ends with o, has the letters e and d in the middle.
Simon.
Simon.
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Simon,
Thanks. I will give it a shot. Schools are a different beast. over here All they have to do is cry once, dangle their contract, and they get what they want!
Windows 2003 server. So I should create a mail folder under the wwwroot folder add the code and name it default.html
Thanks. I will give it a shot. Schools are a different beast. over here All they have to do is cry once, dangle their contract, and they get what they want!
Windows 2003 server. So I should create a mail folder under the wwwroot folder add the code and name it default.html
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