Wed, May 26 2004 18:38
bradley
Don't want to type in domain\user after Exchange 2003 sp1?
UPDATE - THIS WORKAROUND ISN'T GOING TO WORK 100% - SO JUST HAVE YOUR CLIENTS TYPE IN DOMAIN\USER - THE SBS TEAM IS WORKING ON A PERMANENT FIX
820378 - Outlook Web Access session unexpectedly quits when forms-based authentication is used:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=820378
If you want to change OWA so that you don't have to type in domain\user after the application of Exchange 2003 sp1, Matt Gibson in the public newsgroups says --
“Go into IIS admin, go to your OWA website, right click on the exchange dir
and go to "Properties". Then go to the "Directory Security" tab, and click
on the "Edit" button under the "Authentication and Access control". At the
bottom of the new window, you'll see "Default Domain" and "Realm". Just
change "Default domain" to your domain, and you'll be good to go.”
Update by Roger Crawford --
Update to this be sure to include doing this on the Public Virtual Folder
or you will get kicked out of Public Folders when you try to view them
Update from the newsgroups --
Just try reruning the CEICW which will setup the proper settings as OMA is messed up as well
Then I would like to explain this issue in more detail for you:
By default, after running CEICW in SBS 2003, the component will set the
Default Domain property on the corresponding IIS sub-directories (under
Authentication -> Access Control) as following:
1) /Exchange/: \ (cerntainly you can change it to SBS
domain name so you do not need to input the domain name any more. Since you
had mentioned that you do not need to input the domain name in the
previous, you may change this by yourself in the previous)
2) /Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync/: SBS domain name
3) /OMA/: SBS domain name
This is considering the fact that PPC or mobile phone cannot use the
reverse backslash character when inputting credential.
(This is why I say your workaround that you had found is correct and the
best solution because this is just the correct setting for OWA and OMA)
The Exchange 2003 SP1 may change the settings back to the default (/OMA/:
\ ). And this cause the issue on your system.
Or
A poster in the newsgroup says that he used the following workaround --
“I used the "Default domain" entry box via IIS management, Exchange and OMA
websites, Authentication and Access Control to set a default domain. After
that, the logon process for OWA and OMA work like they did pre-SP1.“
I put together some screen shots here to help out --
http://www.sbslinks.com/domain.htm
Filed under: Exchange, Needed Patches/Tweaks
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