OWA Forms Based Authentication

[scanjam]

We have enabled OWA 2003 forms based authentication.
We are using single exchange 2003 sp1 front end to a exchange 2003 ent sp1 clustered.

THe forms based auth is enabled now "apparently" but we dont get the 'pretty' interface for selecting the

Premium access, basic access etc.. we only still get a "user name and password prompt"

IM assuming this is IIS security settings but where or what i have no idea?

Hope you can assist?
Cheers

SCANJAM

 

[anawrocki]

I will ask the obvious question first, as no one else has....

Are you using a supported verion of IE or some other browser? Premium only works with newer versions of IE.

 

[scanjam]

i only ever use IE.however i was using ie7 beta 3...

regardless i just tried IE6, and still no good, just a username and password prompt...

weird... its like the permissiosn for 'anonymous' access are not assigned to the premium front login page or whatever... beats me

any other ideas?

 

[58sniper]

And, obviously, you have a trusted certificate installed, and you're accessing over https?

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Want to know how email works? Read for yourself -

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

 

[Zelandakh]

If you mean that instead of getting the web page to log in you are getting the pop up logon box then check what Exchange is sitting on - the "pretty" web page is on Windows 2003 whereas the pop up box may well mean your Exchange server is still sitting on Exchange 2000.

Why Exchange SP1?

 

[meastaugh1]

What's the url you're using? If you're just using

http://server

then that's to be expected (unless you enable anon access in IIS at the root of the site). If you're using

http://server/exchange

then that ought to be working. You might want to try enabling anonymous access.

 

[scanjam]

https://webmail.domainname

the certificate we are using however is only one provided by our internal CA. (naturally the root cert is on the client devices also) We are only utilising Exchange Server 2003, 2000 has never baan part of the environment

regardless of whether i connect to

https://webmail.domainname

or

https://webmail.domainname/exchange

i still dont get "the pretty page"
its just the logon prompt...

Sigh.. so to be able to see this it definitely needs to be "anonymous" access at the root?

 

[zoeythecat]

Hopefully this article will help. If you already done all this then disregard.

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/OWA2003Forms-based-Authentication-default-domain.html