Exchange 2010 Out of office Assistant

Did you buy a SAN / UCC from GoDaddy with the following names included in each:

mail.domain.com (or remote / whatever)
autodiscover.domain.com
internalservername.internaldomain.local
internalservername
sites

Also, what is the result of the following command run from the Exchange Management Shell:

Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -server yourSBSserverName | fl *url

Have you also created an Autodiscover A record pointing to the IP Address of your SBS server?

Hi Alan
A standard SSL certificate from godaddy using the sbs2011 generation tool with mail.

After running the command
InternalINLBBypassUrl  :  https://ga-server.internaldomain.local/ews/exchange.asmx
InternalUrl                      :  https://ga-server.internaldomain.local/ews/exchange.asmx
ExternalUrl                     :  https://ga-server.internaldomain.local/ews/exchange.asmx

And No i didnt creat an Autodiscovery A Record
Its the same setup as another server that runs fine
as well as a test server which works fine

Okay - the External URL is pointing to the internal URL.  It should be using the External URL, which will be something like https://mail.bbrnaues.com/ews/exchange.asmx.

What names are included in your SSL cert?

(I will tidy up the domain names for you once the Question is complete - so don't worry about posting them [when I am about as I am a Zone Advisor and have extra powers!])

Autodiscover will only work with an Autodiscover A record or an SRV record setup in DNS (external DNS - not internal DNS).

Sorry copy Mistake
I renamed the server before this is actual

Internal Bypassurl : Https://ga-server.internaldomain.local/ews/exchange.asmx
InternalURL            :Https://mail.domain.com.au/EWS/Exchange.asmx
ExteranlURL           :https://mail.domain.com.au/EWS/Exchange.asmx

The only name as far as I know is mail.domain.com.au in the Certificate

Not sure about this Autodiscover in the DNS
But I didnt add to the working server

Okay - so does OOF work externally and not internally?

Sorry not sure what you mean OOF ?

Out Of Facility (the recognised name for Out Of Office) - Sorry - blessed acronyms!

Neither

Ive hooked up a Laptop externally running Outlook over https
same error

But I can apply the the setting through OWA

Okay - when you bought a cert - you bought the wrong one!

To get SBS 2011 working without complaint, you need to buy a Multi-Name SSL certificate including the names I have already mentioned (minimum of 5 names will work happily).

You should also configure an Autodiscover DNS record in the Domains DNS Control Panel pointing to the IP Address of your SBS server.

Once that is done - everything should slot into place nicely and you won't have any issues.

Ok will look into this
can you explain why other sbs2011 server's setup the same work OK

Nope - not without knowing what's been done to it.

SBS can be made to work if you tweak enough settings, but as I buy a SAN / UCC cert with the names I mentioned and then install it, I haven't had to work out a way to fudge the installation.

I would also imagine that something else won't be working on the server that you haven't discovered yet, so won't be recommending fudging this one.

Best practise is to buy a SAN / UCC cert, configure an Autodiscover A record and then you don't have to adjust anything.

Ok I belive you
Thou no tweaking was done standard install
Been looking up still not sure about setting up the Autodiscouver A record
do you have any links on this

Here is a link for how to setup an SRV record instead of an Autodiscover A record:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940881

In terms of an Article for setting up an A record instead - it depends on who your domain is hosted with as to how that is achieved.  Who is the domain hosted via?

Straight DNS hosting through Netports
the mail records pointing to the customers IP address



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Okay - do you have access to create DNS records?

If you do - can you log in and Create a new A record.  Call it AUTODISCOVER and add the External IP Address of your SBS 2011 server as the result for the A record, then when you try to resolve autodiscover.domain.com.au it should resolve back to the SBS 2011 server's IP Address.

Make sense?

Yes thanks will try

If you get stuck anywhere - please let me know.

Hi Alan

After adding the A record
I get an security alert come up in outlook with
The Security Certificate is not valid
The Nmae of the Security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site
if you select proceed
The Out of office assistant comes up
So i gues i now need to sort this certificate
will get on to go-daddy and see what i can do

Okay - progress of sorts.  Getting closer at least.

No I've only added the A record

Hi Alan
I Bought a new UCC SSL certificate for a new server setup
I havde the same setup as the previous customer
I Pointed the same  autodiscover A Record
and  got the same certificate error but everthing worked
Then after adding the new certificate with the correct extra domains
the certificate error dissapeared , but out of office assistant has the not available error
Im using go-daddy for the provider and requesting the certificate for exchange 2010
there isnt an option for sbs2011
& installing the certificate with the sbs2011 wizard

Update

All sorted it was just one user i had an issue with (reconnected the user all working fine)
thnaks for all the assistance on this Good work
I've learnt a little more