Access Denied to inbox using OWA

[KRDaniel]

Hi All,

I am having a weird problem with OWA.
Exch 2003 on Win 2003 both fully patched. Everything was working fine after installation both Outlook client and OWA. So i moved to the next step of enabling HTTPS for OWA. I installed certificate services no issues. Configured required changes as per MS in IIS to enable exchange to use cert. Now when a user access OWA they get their inbox but they also get an access denied error and can't see any emails just the error.

I have gone thru various MS docs relating to permissions but no luck.

Any direction would be appreciated.

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

You are using Basic Authentication for OWA and protecting passwords via SSL?

Jesse Hamrick

http://www.powershellpro.com

 

[KRDaniel]

good day whokillkenny, the irony in this post is my name is kenny.

So, after walking away from the exch server yesterday for fear of losing my mind i came back at it today.
You post prompted me to investigate the permissions and options enabled under IIS.

The first thing i did was to back track that is look at the last step i executed on the exch server. I disabled the "require 128 bit encrypt" option on the properties box of the exchangeweb site under IIS.

Tested https and it works fine. I said how could this be? So i referenced a few docs and found that if you used an online CA which i did and not a third party ca you don't need to have this option enabled because its enabled by default.

Makes almost no sense cuz i would think if its already enabled by default this option should be meaning less.
Apparently not! So i have everything working. Call me crazy but crazy works.

thx