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Issue with Mac mail and external outlook users not connecting to exchange

Hi All,

We currently have an issue with exchange in both our internal/ external Mac users cannot connect to exchange and only external MS outlook users cannot connect.

All smart phone devices (i.e. iPhone, Android etc..) which are outside our domain network i.e. using a Mobile data connection can still connect and send and receive mail and all internal outlook users can connect + send/receive mail fine as well.

I have checked all obvious things such as the MS Exchange services and ensured they are all running, rebooted the Exchange server and also checked bindings within IIS and from what I can tell they appear to be OK.

I am now stuck on this and I can't see how it would be a network issue as mentioned above the smart phones (which are outside the network) are connecting and puling down the mail just fine. I am thinking its perhaps related to an active syc issue, but im am by far no exchange expert and urgently need the help and advise of a EE exchange guru to assit with this.

Thanks in advance,
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Adma1

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I should also add the OWA is working fine and can be accessed outside the network.

Adma1

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I have performed auto discovery test using https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com

See results below.

      Attempting the Autodiscover and Exchange ActiveSync test (if requested).
     Testing of Autodiscover for Exchange ActiveSync failed.

      Test Steps

      Attempting each method of contacting the Autodiscover service.
     The Autodiscover service couldn't be contacted successfully by any method.

      Test Steps note company name has been substituted with the word "company"

      Attempting to test potential Autodiscover URL https://company.com.au/AutoDiscover/AutoDiscover.xml
     Testing of this potential Autodiscover URL failed.

      Test Steps
      Attempting to test potential Autodiscover URL https://autodiscover.company.com.au/AutoDiscover/AutoDiscover.xml
     Testing of this potential Autodiscover URL failed.

      Test Steps
      Attempting to contact the Autodiscover service using the HTTP redirect method.
     The attempt to contact Autodiscover using the HTTP Redirect method failed.

      Test Steps

      Attempting to resolve the host name autodiscover.company.com.au in DNS.
     The host name resolved successfully.

      Additional Details
      Testing TCP port 80 on host autodiscover.company.com.au to ensure it's listening and open.
     The port was opened successfully.
      ExRCA is checking the host autodiscover.company.com.au for an HTTP redirect to the Autodiscover service.
     ExRCA failed to get an HTTP redirect response for Autodiscover.

      Additional Details
      Attempting to contact the Autodiscover service using the DNS SRV redirect method.
     ExRCA failed to contact the Autodiscover service using the DNS SRV redirect method.

      Test Steps

      Attempting to locate SRV record _autodiscover._tcp.company.com.au in DNS.
     The Autodiscover SRV record wasn't found in DNS.

Adma1

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I also came ascross a forum suggestion to check the following:

On Exchange CAS server, open IIS console,
Go to default web site, double click “SSL Settings”, make sure Client Certificates is set to “Ignore”
Click Autodiscover, double click “SSL Settings”, make sure Client Certificates is set to “Ignore”
Click EWS, double click “SSL Settings”, make sure Client Certificates is set to “Ignore”
Click OAB, double click “SSL Settings”, make sure Client Certificates is set to “Ignore”
Please run IISRESET command to load the changes.

i have checked each of these and can confirm our configuration is identical to the suggestion above.

suriyaehnop

If you are using Exchange 2007 and above and the mac user using entourage or Outlook for mac, please make sure you run update for both mac client. I had experianced for mac user unable to connect to exchange server when we did upgrade our Exchange 2007 few years back. After did some googling, we did update the mac client then mac user able to send/receive mail (internal/external)

It appeared to me that you have issue with SRV record:

Attempting to locate SRV record _autodiscover._tcp.company.com.au in DNS.
The Autodiscover SRV record wasn't found in DNS.

Look at this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940881, do it on your public DNS

Then run the test again.

Adma1

ASKER

Hi thanks for the response,

The issue affects all Mac users and we only use the.native Mac mail client within snow leopard and our external users using outlook.

Its strange how this issue jut came about and nothing had changed in order to trigger the issue to occur.

Adma1

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Also I read on forum I came across that the issue could be related to the exchange server not being able to identify the name on the certificate, but this has not changed and the certificate has not expired.

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Adma1

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Hot fix update resolved the issue and exchange now connects as required.