JackVoth
Sat Sep 24 13:28:03 CDT 2005
Michael,
Did you ever get this resolved? As I am having the excat same problem
"michael genovese" wrote:
> lets see.. there are no access denied messages in any of the event logs on
> any server.. I actually already did enable forms based auth on the front end
> and the page shows up fine, and I can successfully authenticate, but when I
> hit "logon" that when I get the error message. Also, OMA seems to be working
> properly through the front end. Just OWA is acting up. I checked the logs for
> IIS on all servers and they don't seem to offer much help. I had looked at
> those knowlege base articles previously and neither of them was my issue. I
> loaded ethereal on the front end, and captured some packets while i tried to
> get into OWA, bu they also don't seem to offer much info. All the LDAP querys
> etc seem to look OK as far as I can tell. One question I did have was what is
> the proper combination of Forms based auth? I can have it loaded on the front
> end, but not on the back end, correct?
>
> "Jim McBee [MVP Exchange]" wrote:
>
> > Michael:
> > I'm not sure if this is your problem or not, but I had a very similar
> > problem recently and it was because the Guests group was being denied
> > permissions to logon locally (or across the network, I'm don't remember
> > exactly). I'm not sure. Can you enable forms-based authentication on the
> > front-end server and then see the Exchange logon page? Can you see the
> > default web site page on the front-end server?
> >
> > Here are a couple of KB articles that I went through while
> > troubleshooting it, though:
> >
> >
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=871013
> >
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829167
> >
> > Other things to try, take a look at the IIS logs on both the front-end
> > server as well as the back-end server to see if there is anything revealing
> > in the logs. Are there any access denied messages in the Security event
> > log?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jim McBee
> > Blog:
http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com
> > Web:
http://www.somorita.com
> >
> >
> > "michael genovese" <michaelgenovese@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > message news:641E6157-B27F-43F7-9F3C-248C9D371D0E@microsoft.com...
> > >I have an exchange 2k3 organization with 3 servers. I have recently set up
> > >a
> > > 4th server to be a front end for OWA. I have followed the microsoft
> > > provided
> > > instructions on how to configure the server and all looks well. The
> > > problem
> > > is when I sign in to OWA on the front end, i get authenticated, but then I
> > > get the error "Http 500 Internal server error". If I turn off friendly
> > > Http
> > > error messages, I get the error "Unspecified Error". I have searched
> > > extensively for an answer but I can not find any.
> >
> >
> >