Clever Way to Redirect OWA Users Who Can’t Remember to Include /Exchange in the Path
Gijs on the ISAserver.org Web boards came up with a clever and effective method to redirect users who enter https://owa.domain.com to https://owa.domain.com/exchange
What you need to do is the following:
- Create a Deny Web Publishing Rule for the public name owa.domain.com. After you finish the rule, go into the properties of the rule and configure a redirect to https://owa.domain.com/exchange
- Create an Allow Web Publishing Rules for owa.domain.com using the Mail Server or Exchange Web Services publishing wizard (depending on the version of the ISA firewall that you’re using). Put this rule right under the Deny rule you created.
Pretty easy and it works a treat!
HTH,
Tom
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Rod Payne Says:
September 14th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
This is excellent… just what I was looking for to make redirection work when moving from ISA 2004 to ISA 2006.
I had been doing redirection in 2004 by adding a path with external=”/” and internal=”/exchange\”. After the upgrade to 2006, OWA would get “The page cannnot be displayed” with “Error Code: 500 Internal Server Error. An internal error occurred. (1359)” Removing the extra path got rid of the error and adding this Deny rule took care of the redirection.
On the Deny rule it looks like I also had to go into the properties and change the internal path from “/*” to “/”, otherwise it redirected over and over.
For FBA, the one complication was that I had to change Users on the Deny rule to All Users and ignore the non-authentication popup.
Philip Colmer Says:
September 15th, 2006 at 7:48 am
I’m having trouble getting the steps right for this. Does the original article on the forum provide more detail or can an article with more detail please be written?
Thanks.
–Philip
Gerhard Says:
September 21st, 2006 at 2:25 am
Thanks a lot. I got it to work after reading the instructions very carefully.
Thanks again.
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Marty Says:
February 12th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
The redirect works just fine if I publish OWA and have the DENY right after it. However, I also want to publish Outlook Anywhere and Exchange ActiveSync
If I put the redirect after the anywhere and activesync rules then they work fine but the redirect doesn’t seem to work at all.
If I put the redirect before the outlook anywhere and activesync rules then the redirection works great but outlook anywhere and activesync don’t work.
How do I redirect HTTP://owa.mydomain.com to HTTPS://owa.mydomain.com/exchange AND publish all three CAS access methods (OWA, RPC over HTTP, and Activesync)
Rick Lim Says:
August 23rd, 2008 at 7:02 am
Thanks for this tutorial. I had been wondering how to do that until i read this.
Thomas Shinder Says:
August 23rd, 2008 at 7:04 am
Hi Rick,
You bet! Glad to help.
Thanks!
Tom