Office 2007 disconnected

[nicolaas1]

I have a problem with outlook 2007 in cached mode.

We have bought a few portables, and want to give our sales people an outlook with cached profile.

So when they are not online they can read the mails they already got.

We also gave them an usb gprs moden and vpn connection.

When i connect to the internet with the gprs moden and the activate the vpn everything is working fine except for outlook it refuses to reconect to the exchange server.

We can ping the exchange server so we know it is there and can be reached but stupid outlook 2007 doesn't see it.

Can someone help ?

Thanx

 

[mofusjtf]

You should just setup RPC over HTTP aka Outlook Anywhere. It will work much better and you won't need a VPN connection. All you will need is an Internet connection.

 

[nicolaas1]

That is not any help for us because we don't wan't to use the webbased outlook because of security issues with iis.

 

[mofusjtf]

You still need to use/configure RPC over HTTP! You would just use it over the VPN. It is designed for low bandwidth connections. In fact, you can use this on the LAN if you want.

 

[danielwestendorf]

I would also recommend RPC over HTTPS, as it is probably going to be more secure to open up an IIS instance that an entire VPN connection.

If your IIS gets compromised, that sucks, your box is probably going to haves some issues.

If someone gets in via VPN, everything might get screwed up.

Otherwise, are you able to ping the exchange server's internal IP(192.168.1.XX) or the external one (mail.yourdomain.com) while connected via VPN?

Are you allowing all traffic to pass through the VPN or is it being firewalled/inspected/manipulated? If so, try allowing everything through just to test.

dw

 

[Zelandakh]

Outlook Anywhere is the way to go. If your Exchange box gets compromised it has all gone - IIS getting compromised shouldn't be very likely these days, I've not lost an Exchange IIS box in 10 years at any rate.

 

[nicolaas1]

Yep we can ping the exchange server using vpn.

 

[nicolaas1]

Ok, i made clear we don't want to use the above solution because one we don't wan't to use iis and two we need a full outlook for dynamix sync afspraken.

So that http is not for us.

Can someone just give me a tip on how to solve this from out of outlook 2007.

Please don't respond again with http options.

 

[strongm]

Do you have an entry for your Exchange Server in your hosts file?

 

[nicolaas1]

Yes,

Something like:

10.10.10.10 Master.antilope.be

IP is here a fake one.

I put it in the host and in the lmhost file.

 

[Davetoo]

Set the primary DNS on your notebooks to your internal DNS server and choose a public DNS server (such as OpenDNS) as secondary.

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

There are no more PDC's! There are DC's with FSMO roles!

 

[nicolaas1]

Thanx,

But then outlook isn't connecting at all.

When i switch of the outlook cashe mode outlook connects.

Could it be that the gprs operator proximus isn't allowing cached exchange ?

 

[Zelandakh]

No because cached Exchange and non-cached Exchange are the same over GPRS, it is just the way Outlook uses the data.

Have you tried outlook /rpcdiag?

 

[nicolaas1]

Yes i did,

I'm setting and testing now with setting security at logon
to password verification (NTLM).

And this seems to work in cached mode of outlook.

Testing so fingers crossed, but so far it works.

 

[Zelandakh]

If they logon as their domain account that should be fine, some orgs get people to logon as local admin when not in the office and have to use basic.

Not entirely sure why of course!