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Making initial Outlook Anywhere connection for remote c... - 9.Jul.2009 10:03:02 AM

crcaldwell

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In an Exchange 2007 environment, if you have a remote user that is not logged on to the domain or using a VPN, can you setup Outlook Anywhere and make the initial connection to the server to resolve the server name and user name without a VPN connection? If so, what am I missing?

I was almost positive this could be done in Exchange 2003...but I can't remember for sure now.

I have just deployed a new Exchange 2007 server for a client. Now they have decided that they want 5 users at a remote facility to be able to use Exchange as well so they can get off of their ISP's POP email. The plan was to simply make those 5 users RPC over HTTP clients. When I was onsite at the mail location I configured two laptops with RPC over HTTP and they connected without issues and it works just fine for them when they are outside of the office. So I have verified that RPC o/HTTP is working properly.

But here is where the problem comes in. I have attempted a few times over the past year to configure RPC o/HTTP for remote clients and have had no success. I always end up initiating a VPN connection first then configuring RPC o/HTTP. That is the only way I have been able to get that initial connection to resovle the names. Now i'm in a situation where the client does not have a VPN connection to utilize for this scenario and they're a few states away so i can't just run over there and setup a temporary point to point VPN to get this done. Sooooooooo, can this even be done without a VPN connection?

Here are some different things I have tried when while attempting this from my office. When configuring the client I do not select the "check name" button. I went to the "more setting" button, clicked pasted the warning then proceeded to configure RPC o/HTTP. For the server name I have used the FQDN of servername.domainname.com, I have tried to used the OWA name of exchange.domainname.com, and I have also tried using just the netbios name of "servername". All attempts fail.