Default settings of ‘Default Website’, Virtual Directories under Default Website and Companyweb on a SBS 2003 Server
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[Today's Post comes to us courtesy Anshul Srivastava]
We get a good number of calls related to Outlook Web Access (OWA), Remote Web Workplace (RWW), or SBS specific features like Backup, Monitoring, and ConnectComputer not working. A fair percentage of these calls are resolved by restoring default settings on Default Website or the virtual directories under it. All we have to do is compare the settings on the Default Website and the virtual directories, depending on what’s not working, with a working server. You may use this document as a reference to compare the settings you have in IIS with the Defaults on a SBS 2003 Server.
Typically this should be your first step if you experience any of the issues below, however you may have to troubleshoot more if restoring default settings does not help.
* (This is not an exhaustive list)
Activesync issues with support code 0x85010004, 85010001
Access Denied,
HTTP 500 Internal Server error,
Directory Listing denied
Page Not Found
Page shows “Loading....” when you try to browse OWA
After you complete the installation of SBS 2003 (Base OS & SBS Components), Outlook Web Access (OWA) and Remote Web Workplace (RWW) are not configured to use SSL by default. It’s only after you run CEICW (Configure Email and Internet Connection Wizard) or make the changes manually that they are configured to use SSL.
The snapshots have been taken from a SBS 2003 Server, Standard Edition, with 1 Network Card and a self created Certificate, which is the most common scenario.
If the SBS Server was installed using all the default settings and options, you will have 4 websites. Details are given in Table below:
Web Sites
Default Web Site
Microsoft Sharepoint Administration
Sharepoint Central Administration
Companyweb
Application Pools
DefaultAppPool
ExchangeApplicationPool
ExchangeMobileBrowseApplicationPool
MSSharepointAppPool
StsAdminAppPool
Web Server Extensions
Default Web Site Virtual Directories
Virtual Directories installed by Exchange
TS Web Client
SBS Specific
Exadmin
Exchange
Exchange-oma
Exchweb
Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync
OMA
Public
Rpc
RpcWithCert
They provide features like OWA, OMA and ActiveSync.
Tsweb
Terminal Services Web Client. Use TS from a browser.
ClientHelp (Provides information for using features like Remote Access, Mobile etc.). Can be browsed by using server_name/ClientHelp in a browser.
Backup (Configure Backup)
Monitoring (Configure Monitoring and Reporting)
ConnectComputer (Connect a client to domain)
Remote Web Workplace (Connect to computers at work place from Internet)
Default Web Site Settings
Web Site Tab
Performance Tab
ISAPI Filters Tab
Home Directory Tab
SBSFLT: c:\inetpub\sbsflt\sbsflt.dll
fpexedll.dll: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\50\bin\fpexedll.dll
Directory Security, IP Address and Domain Name Restrictions
Directory Security, Secure Communications
If you want the default web site accessible from the Internet, Select Granted Access.
HTTP Headers Tab
Exchange Related Virtual Directories and their settings
When you install Exchange, it creates the following virtual directories in the default web site: Exadmin Exchange Exchange-oma Exchweb Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync OMA Public RPC RPCWithCert If you select any of these, right click and select Properties, you would see the following Tabs: Virtual Directory Documents Directory Security HTTP Headers Custom Errors If you have .Net 2 installed, then you will have a Tab called ASP.Net too. All these sites have been designed for asp.net 1.14, so that's what should be selected.
Exadmin
Exadmin, Virtual Directory Tab
Exadmin, Documents Tab
Exadmin, Directory Security Tab, Authentication and Access Control
Exadmin, Directory Security, IP Address and domain name restrictions
Exadmin, HTTP Headers
Exchange
Exchange, Virtual Directory Tab
Exchange, Directory Security, Authentication and access control
Exadmin, Directory Security, IP Address & Domain Name Restrictions
TSWeb, Directory Security, Authentication and access control
TSWEB, Directory Security, IP address and domain name restrictions
TSWeb, Directory Security, Secure Communications
companyweb
companyweb, Website Tab
companyweb, Performance Tab
companyweb, ISAPI Filters Tab
companyweb, Home Directory
Path for SHRPTFLT is c:\inetpub\sbsflt\shrptflt.dll Path for stsfltr is C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\bin\stsfltr.dll
companyweb, Documents Tab
companyweb, Directory Security, Authentication and access control
companyweb, Directory Security, IP Address and domain name restrictions