NoReason

Hey! I have got 2 questions.

Q#1: I have an 2003 Exchange server. 95% of my users use the OWA from inside the LAN or WAN (https://servername/exchange)
The tech who setup the server 3 years ago has it accessable from outside the network. (https://mail.domain.com/exchange)

There is only 1 IIS site on the exchange server that they both use.
This makes it inaccurate when I create a Certificate for it. I have to create it for either the outside address, or the inside.

Can I create another site on that same server and direct all LAN and WAN traffic to that site? thus being able to create a separate certificate for internal and external users?

Q#2: On that same Exchange server... internal users are authenticated to the server by their AD login to the computer, which is nice. External users have to type in a username/password (obviously). But they have to type in domain\username for a username instead of just their username. Any ideas why? We do have several domains that have a 2-way trust with each other. (16 domains to be exact...15 of them are old NT domains that have some legacy software running on them, and then the 1 domain that is primarily used on 2003 servers)
Could that affect it?

Thanks,

Scott

bdesmondMVP

Hi-

Re #1, why not just have internal users use the same URL? You'll need to setup DNS accordingly but this is usually how it's done.

Re #2, Take a look at forms based authentication for Exchange 2003 - it's a much friendlier experience.

bilbus

you could also use a comonation of host headers and modifying the asp file.

http://www.petri.co.il/configuring_f...hange_2003.htm

Or .. just have your users login with their email address. use@thecorrectdomainname.com

djaburg

The reason you're having to use the domainname/username is because the remote computers are not on the domain (or at least are not authenticating on the domain remotely) and the server needs to verify that the username is for a domain user. The domain controller is looking at the computer that the request is coming from so the username looks like computername/username since the computer is not authenticated on the network.

Lanre

Hey I have a question

How can i configure exchange on SBS2003 to send emails to users in my branch office not configured on my mail server but all using the same domain.

bilbus

i am not sure what you are asking.

But if you want help start your own post .. don't hijack somone elses

NoReason

[quote=bdesmondMVP;1893864]Hi-

Re #1, why not just have internal users use the same URL? You'll need to setup DNS accordingly but this is usually how it's done.
[quote]


Sorry it's been awhile. The reason I don't have the users go to the same link, is because is doesn't work from inside our network. It brings them to a dead page.

From everything I read, I cannot set up a redirection in DNS for redirecting internal users browsers from https://mail.domain.com/exchange to https://servername/exchange

Articles suggest creating a new site, and redirecting it to the https://servername/exchange


I thought DNS should do this, unless I'm totally missing something...