Default settings of ‘Default Website’, Virtual Directories under Default Website and Companyweb on a SBS 2003 Server

[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 OwaLogon: C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\ExchWeb\bin\auth\OwaAuth.dll If any of these is missing, you may add them manually. Paths are given above.
Documents	Directory Security, Authentication & Control
Settings in this tab would be exactly the same for all virtual directories except for OMA. Please note that we would not display settings for this tab for other virtual directories as they are same as this one. It would be shown for OMA Tab as it is different.
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	Exadmin, Directory Security, Secure Communications

Exchange-oma

Exchange-oma, Virtual Directory Tab	Exchange-oma, Directory Security, Authentication and access control
Exchange-oma, Directory Security, IP Address and Domain Name Restrictions	Exchange-oma, Directory Security, Secure Communications

ExchWeb

Exchweb, Virtual Directory Tab	Exchweb, Directory Security, Authentication and Access control
Exchweb, Directory Security, IP Address and Domain Name Restriction	Exchweb, Directory Security, Secure Communications Tab
Exchweb, HTTP Headers Tab

Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync

ActiveSync, Virtual Directory Tab	ActiveSync, Directory Security, Authentication and Access Control
ActiveSync, Directory Security, IP Address and Domain Name Restrictions	ActiveSync, Directory Security, Secure Communications

OMA

OMA, Virtual Directory Tab	OMA, Documents Tab
OMA, Authentication and access control	OMA, Directory Security, IP Address and Domain Access Restrictions
OMA, Directory Security, Secure Communications

Public

Public, Virtual Directory	Public, Directory Security, Authentication and access control
Public, Directory Security, IP Address and Domain Name Restrictions	Public, Directory Security, Secure Communications

Backup

Backup, Virtual Directory Tab	Backup, Directory Security, Authentication and access control
Backup, Directory Security, IP Address and Domain name Restrictions	Backup, Directory Security, Secure Communications

ConnectComputer

ConnectComputer, Virtual Directory Tab	ConnectComputer, Directory Security, Authentication and Access control
ConnectComputer, Directory Security, IP Address and Domain Name Restrictions	ConnectComputer, Directory Security, Secure Communications

ClientHelp

ClientHelp, Virtual Directory Tab	ClientHelp, Directory Security, Authentication and access control
ClientHelp, Directory Security, IP Address and Domain Name Restrictions	ClientHelp, Directory Security, Secure Communications

Remote

Remote, Virtual Directory Tab	Remote, Directory Security, Authentication and Access Control
Remote, Directory Security, IP address and domain name restrictions	Remote, Directory Security, Secure Communications

RPC

RPC, Virtual Directory Tab	RPC, Directory Security, Authentication and access control
RPC, Directory Security, IP Address and Domain Name Restrictions	RPC, Directory Security, Secure Communications

RPCWithCert

RPCWithCert, Virtual Directory Tab	RPCWithCert, Directory Security, Authentication and Access control
RPCWithCert, Directory Security, IP Address and Domain Name Restrictions	RPCWithCert, Directory Security, Secure Communications

Monitoring

Monitoring, Virtual Directory Tab	Monitoring, Directory Security, Authentication and access control
Monitoring, Directory Security, IP Address and domain name restrictions	Monitoring, Directory Security, Secure Communications

TSWeb

TSWEB, Virtual Directory Tab	TSWEB, Documents Tab
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	companyweb, Directory Security, Secure Communications