Outlook Web Access on Exchange 2003

Hello Everyone,

A long time ago I once setup Outlook Web Access and made the URL
http://mail.company.com and it redirected to https://mail.company.com and
even then it came up with a pretty blue page which users could login to. I
don't remember how to set it up like this. Is there a URL which outlines this
setup?

Thank You,

locoytravieso

Mark
Wed Feb 07 01:13:03 CST 2007

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:16:00 -0800, locoytravieso
<locoytravieso@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hello Everyone,
>
>A long time ago I once setup Outlook Web Access and made the URL
>http://mail.company.com and it redirected to https://mail.company.com and
>even then it came up with a pretty blue page which users could login to. I
>don't remember how to set it up like this. Is there a URL which outlines this
>setup?
>
>Thank You,
>
>locoytravieso

Yes indeed. Here is a google search string:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=redirect+owa+https&meta=
You will find that there are a few at the top which talk about ISA. If
you scroll down you will see the ones (there are several) that help
you do this with Exchange only.

locoytravieso
Wed Feb 07 10:13:00 CST 2007

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the reply. I got the part about the SSL setup. Now how do I make
the pretty blue "Welcome to Outlook Web Access" page come up instead of
people just getting the username/password prompt?

Thanks again!!

locoytravieso

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:16:00 -0800, locoytravieso
> <locoytravieso@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello Everyone,
> >
> >A long time ago I once setup Outlook Web Access and made the URL
> >http://mail.company.com and it redirected to https://mail.company.com and
> >even then it came up with a pretty blue page which users could login to. I
> >don't remember how to set it up like this. Is there a URL which outlines this
> >setup?
> >
> >Thank You,
> >
> >locoytravieso
>
> Yes indeed. Here is a google search string:
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=redirect+owa+https&meta=
> You will find that there are a few at the top which talk about ISA. If
> you scroll down you will see the ones (there are several) that help
> you do this with Exchange only.
>

Smokey
Wed Feb 07 10:44:53 CST 2007

locoytravieso wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I got the part about the SSL setup. Now how do I make
> the pretty blue "Welcome to Outlook Web Access" page come up instead of
> people just getting the username/password prompt?
>
> Thanks again!!
>
> locoytravieso


http://www.petri.co.il/configuring_forms_based_authentication_in_exchange_2003.htm

Forms Based Authentication

locoytravieso
Wed Feb 07 18:09:00 CST 2007

Hello Smokey,

Thanks for that info. I got it all set up. Now one last question, how do I
set it up so users only have to put in their userID instead of
company.com\userid?

Thank You,

locoytravieso

"Smokey" wrote:

> locoytravieso wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. I got the part about the SSL setup. Now how do I make
> > the pretty blue "Welcome to Outlook Web Access" page come up instead of
> > people just getting the username/password prompt?
> >
> > Thanks again!!
> >
> > locoytravieso
>
>
> http://www.petri.co.il/configuring_forms_based_authentication_in_exchange_2003.htm
>
> Forms Based Authentication
>

locoytravieso
Wed Feb 07 18:26:00 CST 2007

Oh, one last last thing.... How do I enable redirection of both
http://mail.mycompany.com and https://mail.mycompany.com to go to
https://mail.mycompany.com/exchange? I have tried to do this and I get a 403
error.

Thank You!

locoytravieso

"Smokey" wrote:

> locoytravieso wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. I got the part about the SSL setup. Now how do I make
> > the pretty blue "Welcome to Outlook Web Access" page come up instead of
> > people just getting the username/password prompt?
> >
> > Thanks again!!
> >
> > locoytravieso
>
>
> http://www.petri.co.il/configuring_forms_based_authentication_in_exchange_2003.htm
>
> Forms Based Authentication
>

locoytravieso
Thu Feb 08 00:53:00 CST 2007

Hello Mark,

I used the following URL to configure http -> https redirection:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555053. I followed it (I thought) to the T
and I am still having problems. When I attempt to bring up the
http://mail.mycompany.com URL it just sits trying to reload in IE until it
eventually returns an error page. One item of curiousity is that when I set
the redirect at the Default Website it also changes all the subdirectories to
redirected also.

What am I missing here?

Thanks,

locoytravieso

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:16:00 -0800, locoytravieso
> <locoytravieso@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello Everyone,
> >
> >A long time ago I once setup Outlook Web Access and made the URL
> >http://mail.company.com and it redirected to https://mail.company.com and
> >even then it came up with a pretty blue page which users could login to. I
> >don't remember how to set it up like this. Is there a URL which outlines this
> >setup?
> >
> >Thank You,
> >
> >locoytravieso
>
> Yes indeed. Here is a google search string:
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=redirect+owa+https&meta=
> You will find that there are a few at the top which talk about ISA. If
> you scroll down you will see the ones (there are several) that help
> you do this with Exchange only.
>

Smokey
Thu Feb 08 06:51:18 CST 2007

locoytravieso wrote:
> Hello Smokey,
>
> Thanks for that info. I got it all set up. Now one last question, how do I
> set it up so users only have to put in their userID instead of
> company.com\userid?
>
> Thank You,

Use basic authentication for the exchange virtual directory, not
integrated windows.

Smokey
Thu Feb 08 06:55:11 CST 2007

locoytravieso wrote:
> Oh, one last last thing.... How do I enable redirection of both
> http://mail.mycompany.com and https://mail.mycompany.com to go to
> https://mail.mycompany.com/exchange? I have tried to do this and I get a 403
> error.
>

What I do, and there are probally a million ways to do this, is setup a
new website in IIS, use host headers and name it mail.mycompany.com in
the home directory section I redirect the requests from
http://mail.mydomain.com to https://mail.mydomain.com/exchange