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by jgipson

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I have installed an Exchange server on my home NT network and I am trying to use the Outlook web feature. I can access it within my network but not from the outside world. The web feature is a virtual directory on the exchange server within IIS. I have a web server that is running IIS and have tried to set up a virtual site on the web server pointing to the exchange server. I can see that it is trying to find the logon.asp file but it comes back with a cannot find page error. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

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by Former member

Must have valid DNS records for your IIS/exchange server and valid IPs, for the internet.

by shanghai sam

Use ip address as the 1st person suggested (I assumed if you are playing with these, you already know.)

By default if you install outlook web access (owa) it will install it on your DEFAULT web site. The default virtual directory is /exchange.
But if you want to install OWA on other virtual sites you need to do exactly as described in this article (Q246203 - XWEB Configuring OWA Outside the Default Web Site) from microsoft knowledge base. Looks to me like you forgot to load the exchflt.dll isapi extension on the virtual site. This dll is the redirector. So when you type http://server/exchange you are directed to ://server/exchange/logon.asp instead of ://server/exchange/usa/logon.asp as with the structure.

If you want to change the virtual directory say to http://server/email instead of http://server/exchange, you need to follow this article (Q174707 - XWEB Changing the Outlook Web Access Virtual Directory).

Good luck.

by zk

Use ip address as the 1st person suggested (I assumed if you are playing with these, you already know.)

By default if you install outlook web access (owa) it will install it on your DEFAULT web site. The default virtual directory is /exchange.
But if you want to install OWA on other virtual sites you need to do exactly as described in this article (Q246203 - XWEB Configuring OWA Outside the Default Web Site) from microsoft knowledge base. Looks to me like you forgot to load the exchflt.dll isapi extension on the virtual site. This dll is the redirector. So when you type http://server/exchange you are directed to ://server/exchange/logon.asp instead of ://server/exchange/usa/logon.asp as with the structure.

If you want to changethe virtual directory say to http://server/email instead of http://server/exchange, you need to follow this article (Q174707 - XWEB Changing the Outlook Web Access Virtual Directory).

Good luck.

(Why did my alias became transient on the abovepost? Timed out and posted as annonymous, transient, userdeleted, I think. Well here we go,..again)

by gbainbridge

Can you see any website you are hosting from outside your internal network, even the default?

If not, you should investigate how your network security is implemented. If your Exchange box has a private IP address, then you'll need to use NAT and map port 80 to the appropriate IP address. You might also want to ensure that port 80 is not being blocked entirely.

Hope this helps.

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