remote use of Outlook Web Access

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Jim McDonald

Hi all.. anyone know this?? I have setup OWA on a server, behind a hardware
firewall, and want to let the users get their mail remotely..
If I go into the server via RDP, I can issue http://Server/Exchange/Joe and
get Joe's mail. This is not a lot of use because I don't want the users
using RDP and also I want a simpl command to adress the mail remotely on the
web, which I thought was the idea anyway!!
What is the command to get to the OWA from anywhere on the web? I know the
static IP of the firewall and the addresses of the server if that helps!!
Thanks a million for any advice!!
Jim McDonald
 
Hi all.. anyone know this?? I have setup OWA on a server, behind a
hardware
firewall, and want to let the users get their mail remotely..
If I go into the server via RDP, I can issue http://Server/Exchange/Joe
and
get Joe's mail. This is not a lot of use because I don't want the users
using RDP and also I want a simpl command to adress the mail remotely on
the
web, which I thought was the idea anyway!!
What is the command to get to the OWA from anywhere on the web? I know
the
static IP of the firewall and the addresses of the server if that helps!!
Thanks a million for any advice!!
Jim McDonald
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You need to configure your firewall to pass HTML traffic to the IIS server
hosting OWA (probably your Exchange box). Then you connect to it by
opening IE (or whatever browser) remotely, putting in the IP address of
your firewall (the WAN address) or the URL if you have your DNS configured
to point to it, like so:

http:\\123.456.789.012\exchange

or

http:\\myfirewall.mycompany.com\exchange

You'll get a login prompt and then, after entering username/password,
you'll get OWA.
 
Ben M. Schorr - MVP said:
You need to configure your firewall to pass HTML traffic to the IIS
server hosting OWA (probably your Exchange box). Then you connect to
it by opening IE (or whatever browser) remotely, putting in the IP
address of your firewall (the WAN address) or the URL if you have
your DNS configured to point to it, like so:

http:\\123.456.789.012\exchange

or

http:\\myfirewall.mycompany.com\exchange
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Those are not legal URLs. Change the direction of the virgules.
 
You need to configure your firewall to pass HTML traffic to the IIS
server hosting OWA (probably your Exchange box). Then you connect to
it by opening IE (or whatever browser) remotely, putting in the IP
address of your firewall (the WAN address) or the URL if you have
your DNS configured to point to it, like so:
http:\\123.456.789.012\exchange
or
http:\\myfirewall.mycompany.com\exchange
Those are not legal URLs. Change the direction of the virgules.
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True, though IE will do it for you so it really doesn't matter. (at least
if you're using IE)
 
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