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Unable to connect to Outlook over VPN when in China
Hi. I have a remote VPN user who travels to China frequently. We use a Watchguard Firebox client to terminate at our Firebox and then they have access to the internal network. User has always had issues connecting to Outlook 2003 through our VPN at various locations in China. I've chalked it up to ISP issues over there and told him to go across the street or find another location and it usually works ok. I recently moved my Exhange 2003 services to another server and since then he seems to be having even more issues. During his last trip, he could not connect in most cases - sometimes he would not connect and then would connect the next day at the same hotel. When he did manage to connect, Outlook disconnected after about 30 minutes. He said he was still able to access our internal network after Outlook disconnected though. He is able to connect to Outlook through VPN when stateside and even connects when attached through a dial-up line, although connection to Outlook is now quite a bit slower over dial-up than it used to be.
Did I miss a setting on the new server? Outlook client has been changed to point to new server and I even added a pointer in the hosts table since he got back. Can anyone think of anything else?
Did I miss a setting on the new server? Outlook client has been changed to point to new server and I even added a pointer in the hosts table since he got back. Can anyone think of anything else?
What version of Exchange are you running? Are you running in Cached mode?
If the VPN is comming up then it's fundamentally working (assuming no settings are being changed client side such as the use default gateway on remote network option), most likely due to a poor connection, another test is to have your user hit the internal name of your OWA site.
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Exchange 2003 SP2 and yes running in cached mode.
Yes OWA works from the outside but he doesn't like it. Don't think he's tried an internal OWA connect through the VPN though. That works fine in my tests too but who knows what's up in China? I keep offering to go over there for a week to test but no dice so far. One last bit. I have had issues in the past with Wide Open West (ISP) users. Turns out WOW likes to dole out bandwidth on an as needed basis so my users had trouble connecting to Oulook via VPN. I had to call the provider on behalf of each of my home users and ask them to open their bandwidth and then no more problems.. I've always guessed this is the same issue but no idea who the CHinese providers are and like I said the issue seems to have changed somewhat. I'd be happy if I got back to the point where my chinese users could connect at least some of the time and stay connected so I'm hoping I missed something in the setup of the new server - but can't spot anything...?
thanks guys:)
Yes OWA works from the outside but he doesn't like it. Don't think he's tried an internal OWA connect through the VPN though. That works fine in my tests too but who knows what's up in China? I keep offering to go over there for a week to test but no dice so far. One last bit. I have had issues in the past with Wide Open West (ISP) users. Turns out WOW likes to dole out bandwidth on an as needed basis so my users had trouble connecting to Oulook via VPN. I had to call the provider on behalf of each of my home users and ask them to open their bandwidth and then no more problems.. I've always guessed this is the same issue but no idea who the CHinese providers are and like I said the issue seems to have changed somewhat. I'd be happy if I got back to the point where my chinese users could connect at least some of the time and stay connected so I'm hoping I missed something in the setup of the new server - but can't spot anything...?
thanks guys:)
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that sounds like exactly what I need. Users currently use VPN to access a 3rd party manufacturing application based off of a A/S400 server as well as shared drives, MS Access/sql database apps, etc...
Are there any security issues with using RPC over Https though?
Are there any security issues with using RPC over Https though?
You have the same level of encryption as VPN, so no.
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perfect - thanks for the help :)