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Web Serv. and Exch. Serv. Diferent - 18.Aug.2003 5:11:00 PM

jporrata

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Haw chould I configure my OWA if my web server is in a diferent server than the exchange. I have a router doing a nating and fowarding port 80 to the web server. What can I do so tha clients dont have to type a diferent port when thay want to acces OWA?

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RE: Web Serv. and Exch. Serv. Diferent - 18.Aug.2003 8:34:00 PM

Henrik Walther

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Hello Joaquin,

Sorry to say but if you won't OWA funtionality on your webserver, you need to install Exchange 2000 on it plus pay for an extra license [Eek!]

If you just want to forward OWA clients directly to your existing Exchange Server you could create a NAT rule in your router, which forwards port 443 (SSL) to the Exchange server, but be aware you need to implement SSL on the Default Website in order for this to work. But for security reasons you really should implement SSL anyway.

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RE: Web Serv. and Exch. Serv. Diferent - 19.Aug.2003 12:26:00 PM

drusho

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Extending Henrik's suggestion, you could create a different "Host Header" for the Exchange Server.
Then forward the /exchange requests on the Website to the Exchange Server.
I don't know if your firewall and router will support it. It does seem abit of a routing headache.
IS there a lot of stuff on your Webserver?
You could host your website on the Exchange Server and NAT the requests to the Exchange server. And save windows 2000 Server Licence!
You could even seperate the sites In the IIS, using Host Headers.

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RE: Web Serv. and Exch. Serv. Diferent - 19.Aug.2003 7:29:00 PM

jporrata

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Thanks For the tips. I have now impemented SSL but something is not working right, the page doesn't come up.....it stays like hug-up. What could be the problem.

Exchange 2000
W2K sp4

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RE: Web Serv. and Exch. Serv. Diferent - 19.Aug.2003 9:26:00 PM

Henrik Walther

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And you do type:

HTTPS://domain_or_IP/exchange ?

Does some of the page shows ?

Are you getting validated ?

When dealing with SSL and certificates it could be caused by many things...

Anything interesting in the Event Log ?

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RE: Web Serv. and Exch. Serv. Diferent - 20.Aug.2003 8:46:00 PM

jporrata

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I got it to work in the intranet but when I try to access the site from the outside of my network I get that the page cannot be found. What could be wrong? I have my web server redirect to a page in the exchange. In my router I port forward 80 to my web server and then port forward 443 using a cert to the exchange.

www.xxxx.net/webmail-->https://webmail.xxxx.net

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RE: Web Serv. and Exch. Serv. Diferent - 20.Aug.2003 9:22:00 PM

Henrik Walther

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quote:
Originally posted by Joaquin:
I have my web server redirect to a page in the exchange. In my router I port forward 80 to my web server and then port forward 443 using a cert to the exchange.

I need to understand this correcly, do you redirect SSL/443 from the webserver or directly from the router to the exchange server ?

You should create NAT rule in your router so all SSL/443 traffic goes to your Exchange server.

Have you installed the Certificate on the Exchange server or ?

Regards

[ August 20, 2003, 09:23 PM: Message edited by: Henrik Walther ]

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RE: Web Serv. and Exch. Serv. Diferent - 20.Aug.2003 10:56:00 PM

jporrata

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I do have have a NAT in the router that sends all 443 trffic to the exchange. But because all my port 80 trafic goes to my web server I have to redirect all the trffic from www.xxxx.net/webmail that comes through port 80 to the port 443 in the exchange. I do have installed the cert in the exchange.

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