OWA when website is redirected

[LRSmith]

Our office has had its own website, separate from the main company's website, for a number of years. Per direction from headquarters, we have been told to shut down our website and redirect to the main company page immediately.

Problem is, when I set up the server to redirect, it affected our OWA access (we run our own email server here too). Previously, we'd type in

http://www.localofficewebsite.com/exchange.

Now that doesn't work because

http://www.localofficewebsite.com

is redirected to

http://www.maincompanywebsite.com.

Any suggestions how we can retain our OWA? One thought I had was to create a new local website that only gave a link to the main company website...a bit archaic but would allow us to retain our OWA by not automatically redirecting.

 

[markdmac]

Use ASP to redirect traffic to your local web site (not the OWA) to the address you want.

The code you need is simple:

<%
Response.Redirect "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.maincompanywebsite.com"[/URL]
%>

Undo whatever IP redirection you did.


I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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http://www.thespidersparlor.com/vbscript

 

[LRSmith]

Thanks Mark,

I tried the response.redirect code, but had trouble getting it to work. Instead went with

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3; url=http://www.maincompanywebsite.com">

I do appreciate the response though - it confirmed my suspicions that the easiest way to salvage OWA was to simply redirect the webpage from the local website rather than an IP redirection.