Can I make both http://myowa.com *and* https://myowa.com work ?

[Marlon Brown]

In the past I was using an F5big ip switch to manage certificates and the
device accepted user input from both http://myowa.com *and*
https://myowa.com

Now I won't use F5Big IP switch anymore.
Users that are trying to reach my OWA boxes sometimes type http://myowa.com
and some type https://myowa.com
Therefore I need to let both http and https URLS be accepted.

In DNS, Is there any way that I can let both urls (I mean, users can type
http or https) reach my owa.com server ?
The setup is:
User--->PIX-->DMZ-ISA-->Internal Network->OWA boxes
My "external" DNS servers are Win2000SP4 Server.

Please advise.

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

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In the past I was using an F5big ip switch to manage
certificates and the device accepted user input from both
http://myowa.com *and* https://myowa.com

Now I won't use F5Big IP switch anymore.
Users that are trying to reach my OWA boxes sometimes
type http://myowa.com and some type https://myowa.com
Therefore I need to let both http and https URLS be
accepted.

In DNS, Is there any way that I can let both urls (I
mean, users can type http or https) reach my owa.com
server ?
The setup is:
User--->PIX-->DMZ-ISA-->Internal Network->OWA boxes
My "external" DNS servers are Win2000SP4 Server.

Please advise.

DNS can resolve the name but has nothing to do with the protocol used.
You configure these using the web server. The way I handled this was to
configure the default page under http://mail.mydomain.com to redirect to
https://mail.mydomain.com/exchange and only require SSL on the Exchange
Directory.

 

[Herb Martin]

In DNS, Is there any way that I can let both urls (I mean, users can type

http or https) reach my owa.com server ?
The setup is:
User--->PIX-->DMZ-ISA-->Internal Network->OWA boxes
My "external" DNS servers are Win2000SP4 Server.

As Kevin says, this is unrelated to DNS, but is a factor
of your FIREWALLS and your IIS Server.

The firewalls must pass request on the SSL 443 port
through to the Web server and the web server must
offer that service and access to the OWA specifically
through it.

Chances are the latter (IIS and OWA) are working if
you had it working before changing out your network
so likely the PIX and ISA must allow it and forward
it if necessary to the correct (IP) location.