Webmail deployment
Hello, I am running exchange server 2003 on Windows Server 2003. I have a deployment problem with webmail. I set up a dns entry, so that my webmail can be accessed like http://webmail.mydomain.com. But it does not work. However, if I do http://webmail.mydomain.com/exchange/brian it works fine. I must be missing some piece that is causing this to not work properly. I don't think I should have to append the 'exchange/brian' for this to work, that should be automatic based on my signon. I am NOT getting the webmail signon screen, however, if I append the exchange/brian, it does ask me to authenticate, and I then get into email just fine. Everything works perfectly as long as I put in the full URL. Any ideas where to look for this problem? I think if I can get http://webmail.mydomain.com to actually give the signin screen, then I will have the problem resolved. Thanks
January 23rd, 2008 10:14pm

There are two "issues" with the default webmail installation in 2k3. Exchange requires /exchange appended to the end of the hostname. This is not a DNS setting, its an IIS virtual directory. By further appending /brian that just helps exchange assume the mailbox name, but simply /exchange should also take you to your mailbox. If you are using ssl, it doesnt redirect you to ssl if you wish to use this. I would put a file at the root of your ..\Inetpub\wwwroot directory called default.htm. IIS will then read this file when people don't specify "slash anything" and act accordingly. If you aren't using ssl, just adjust accordingly. There are lots of ways to accomplish this, but here is the file I use: Code Snippet <html> <head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"><title>Redirecting you to https://mail.company.com/exchange</title> <script> var browser_type=navigator.appNamevar browser_version=parseInt(navigator.appVersion) //if NS 4+if (browser_type=="Netscape"&&browser_version>=4)window.location.replace("https://mail.company.com/exchange")//if IE 4+else if (browser_type=="Microsoft Internet Explorer"&&browser_version>=4)window.location.replace("https://mail.company.com/exchange")//Default goto page (NOT NS 4+ and NOT IE 4+)elsewindow.location="https://mail.company.com/exchange"</script></head> <body>This page is attempting to redirect you to <a href="https://mail.company.com/exchange">https://mail.company.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> There are lots of ways to address this. Just use your favorite search engine to look up "redirect exchange virtual directory"
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January 24th, 2008 6:27am

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