Part 9: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - OWA /exchange path redirection
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.
Yesterday, we got Outlook Web Access available on the Internet (albeit still using http rather than https - later this week we'll solve that). Our users are currently accessing Outlook Web Access using the URL https://mail.contoso.com/exchange. Users being users (bless them), like to remember as little as possible and call the help-desk, office technicial guru or simply blame everything but themselves for not being able to remember to tack on "/exchange". Well, the good news is that there's a few tricks up our sleeve to make sure users only have to remember https://mail.contoso.com instead. In this blogcast, I look at a home-brewed way using a simple script to force the redirection. It does work, but I conclude due to the "supportability" issue, it is not ideal. Good news is though that I have since found an even better way of doing it, thanks to an article Tom Schinders excellent site, isaserver.org.
This is the script I used in this blogcast is:
<%@ language=VBScript %>
<%
response.redirect "/exchange"
%>
Series Index:
0. Network configuration and series background.
1. Getting started
2. ISA Server configuration to allow basic web browsing capability
3. ISA Firewall Client basic configuration
4. ISA Firewall Client auto-detection through WPAD configuration
5. Configuring an Exchange mailbox and Outlook profile
6. Fixing 0x8004010F on Outlook send/receive
7. Installing our first Certificate Authority
8. Publishing OWA through ISA using Forms Based Authentication