Exchweb to OWA redirect problem (Network Steve Forum)

Exchweb to OWA redirect problem

We recently migrated from Exchange 2003 to 2007. During our transition several hundred of our users bookmarked the OWA login page as https://mail.domain.com/exchweb. Now that address no longer works and instead they must use https://mail.domain.com/owa. I have all of the redirects in place to redirect someone if they simply type https://mail.domain.com to https://mail.domain.com/owa. The only issue that the redirect doesn't work when they click on their bookmark. I tried to uncheck the "Only redirect requests to content in this directory" box under the exchweb virtual directory, but when I do this I get the following error:There was an error while performing this operationDetails:Filename:\\?\BackOfficeStorage\mail.domain.com\ExchWeb\web.configError: Cannot write configuration fileSince we are completely migrated to 2007 and we don't have any legacy 2003 mailboxes, can I simply change the Physical Path of the Exchweb virtual directory to point to the same directory as the OWA virtual directory? I'm not sure if this will cause issues or not. Or, can I remove the Exchweb virtual directory completely???Otherwise, if anyone has any suggestions on how I can redirecthttps://mail.domain.com/exchwebtohttps://mail.domain.com/owa, I'd be welcome to that as well.Any help would be appreciated.

February 26th, 2009 2:24am

Hey Ross, Have you ever been through this technet article >>http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998359.aspx?M

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February 26th, 2009 2:20pm

Hi, In Exchange 2007, the /exchweb and/Exchange virtual directory is for the legacy 2003 mailboxes. Based on your situation, you can remove the legacy virtual directory completely. There is no necessary to redirect /exchweb to /owa. Thanks Allen

February 27th, 2009 1:03pm

Hi Ross, I ran into the same problem you are describing above, only I do have Exchange 2003 mailboxes in my environment, so the solution suggested by Allen Song did not apply to me. I'm not sure if the situation we/you were seeing is due to a misconfiguration, or if all CAS servers are configured the same way. In either case, I thought I'd post my solution for anyone else running into the same thing. I followed the document on simplifying Exchange URLs, but did not set a redirect on the Default Web Site, because that broke other functionality because it forced a redirect on the \\.\BackOfficeStorage virtual directories. This left me with a situation where I would get proper redirection, except for the cases where a user went to httpS://mail.mydomain.com--here they would get the IISStart.htm page. To resolve this, I copied my SSLRedirect.htm I had created and set as a cusdom error page for 403.4 errors to C:\inetpub\wwwroot (the root of the Default Web Site), then, in IIS7, I changed the Default Document to be SSLRedirect.htm. For reference, the HTML in SSLRedirect.htm is: <html> <head> <title>HTML Redirection to https:</title> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="1; URL=https://mail.mydomain.com/exchange"> </head> <body> This page is attempting to redirect you to <a href="https://mail.mydomain.com/exchange">https://mail.mydomain.com/exchange</a><br> If you are not redirected within a few seconds, please click the link above to access Outlook Web Access. </body></html>

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February 22nd, 2010 7:06pm

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