How to change default localhost/exchange web link for OWA

[gregfranklin]

Sorry I know, a total newbie question, I am familar with Exchange 2003, but haven't really messed aruond with web access yet. I have everything working, including web access so in order to access the web client I type

http://www.domain.com/exchange

But say I want to type in mail.domain.com and that then points to OWA. Can anyone go through what I need to do in IIS??

Thanks!

 

[jkupski]

Just redirect the client using whatever method floats your boat... no need to mess with IIS.

Suggest you google for 'asp redirect' for instructions if you need them.

 

[gregfranklin]

But the boss wants to be able to type in mail.domain.com instead of

http://www.domain.com/exchange

Can anyone explain how to do this in some detail??

Thanks!

 

[jkupski]

As I said, google is your friend. Try here:

http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/24538.html

Assuming you have a DNS record for mail.domain.com pointed at the OWA server, and you serve the redirect.asp as your default page, you can simply redirect the client to wherever you want to. i.e. "

http://mail.domain.com"

becomes "

https://www.domain.com/exchange"

(you ARE using FBA and SSL, right?) in a manner transparent to the user.

 

[gregfranklin]

Okay I will tinker around with that. And no we are not using SSL and FBA as of yet. We just want to get the server going for now.

 

[MrFusion]

If you use ISA server to publish your webmail it can do it for you. I have set ours up so that when a user goes to webmail.x.com.au they are automatically diverted to webmail.x.com.au/exchange.

Before we deployed ISA server I had a default.asp/html that just diverted the user straight to /exchange. If you want I can see if I still have those old scripts around somewhere.

By the sounds of it you are not using ISA, but you should definately consider it (from a security point of view).

Good luck

 

[jkupski]

By the sounds of it you are not using ISA, but you should definately consider it (from a security point of view).

I don't have any experience with ISA server, but I do agree with this statement. Personally, I have an Apache server sitting in front of my OWA box, doing the same thing. You say tomayto, I say tomahto.