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Exchange forms based authentication and integrated security.

Hello Experts,

Everytime we reboot our server the Exchweb directory loses it's Integrated Authentication security setting.
We have a Exchange 2003 server and through the system manager we can see that the setting in the HTTP>Exchange properties that the integrated authenitcation is not selected and is greyed out.

Is there anything else we can do to correct this ?

We appreciate your assistance.

Maen Abu-Tabanjeh

check weather integrated authentication are enabled on IIS default website and ExWeb active directory , enable them if they are not

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Line One

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Hello BeyondNXT,

The solution you provided definitely sounds feasible.
I will try this out and let you know if it all works out ok.
As you mentioned the problem is the forms and integrated authentication do not work together during startup.
It's strange that you can enable it after though and it works fine as long as someone can start the integrated authentication manually.

Thanks.

Maen Abu-Tabanjeh

check this :

http://www.petri.co.il/configuring_forms_based_authentication_in_exchange_2003.htm

and focus on this :

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/configuring-exchange2003-http-remote-access.html

Line One

ASKER

Thanks - I will read through these.

Line One

ASKER

Thanks BeyondNXT,

Your solution led me to do a metabase cleanup and after having all the exchange directories removed the anonymous login had to be changed and that corrected all the issues with the virtual directory.

Thanks, Lineonecorp