Part 21: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Outlook OK, OWA needs some work

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.

With our new rule in place on the ISA Server, this sixth part of configuring TPC over HTTP for Outlook 2003 first takes a quick look at the effects on Outlook Web Access - we now get a basic authentication challenge instead of Forms Basic Authentication. However, we can still log on. We'll come back to that in a few parts time.

Our Outlook profile still has the internal name of our Exchange Server configured for the Exchange Proxy Server, so we alter that to point to the external name, mail.contoso.com. On restarting Outlook with the rpcdiag switch, we see that it connects using RPC over HTTPS through our ISA Server correctly from the Internet. Result!

We put our Outlook profile back to a more "normal" RPC/HTTPS configuration by connecting using TCP/IP on fast networks first, and HTTPS on slow networks first. We then take a look at what happens when we switch our client from internal to external to internal networks. Perfect!

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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
9. OWA /exchange redirection
10. OWA nearly goes SSL - we have a certificate
11. OWA is available over SSL/HTTPS
12. Sending external email - Configuring outbound SMTP
13. Mail retrieval through POP3 polling
14. Preparations for Email retrieval through SMTP Transfer
15. Completing Email retrieval through SMTP Transfer
16. RPC/HTTP: Overview and installing RPC Proxy component
17. RPC/HTTP: IIS Config and a bit on certificates
18. RPC/HTTP: Exchange IIS Config completion
19. RPC/HTTP: Working from internal network
20. RPC/HTTP: Revisiting our ISA rules