So, what about giving your users simpler URLs? Like http://webmail.yourdomain.com for OWA and/or http://remote.yourdomain.com for RWW
What about Sharepoint? Typing :444 at the end of an URL is really not cool at all. Wouldn’t it be great if you could use http://intranet.yourdomain.com to access your intranet directly? If this idea sounds appealing to you… then keep reading:
Method 1 –
If you have your DNS hosted with ZoneEdit, GoDaddy or any other DNS provider that provides URL redirection you can do this in less than 1 minute. Just open the DNS console and create those records. The great thing about this is that its easy, you don’t have to do anything on your end and you can even keep port 80 closed on the SBS box.
Method 2 –
If you are the kind of guy (or gal) that likes to do things themselves then this is for you. Here’s an example on how to do it for OWA:
1) Create an “A” record on your public DNS for webmail.yourdomain.com that points to your server IP address. Remember that this is something you do to the public DNS so your SBS box is not involved (i.e. you probably need to call your ISP).
2) Go to the SBS box and open the IIS console. Drill down to websites, right click and select “create new”, follow the wizard. Name it “OWA redirector”, on the host header box type “webmail.yourdomain.com” and finish the wizard.
3) Right click on the newly created website and select properties. Go to the Home Directory tab, change it to “Redirection to a URL”, type “http://something.yourdomain.com/exchange” on the Redirect to box and click ok.
Now you should be able to type http://webmail.yourdomain.com and be automatically redirected to OWA. Do the same thing with RWW and Sharepoint. Heck, you could even go to Mapquest get the URL of your office location and then create a redirector from http://map.yourdomain.com to that. The possibilities are endless with just a little creativity J
BTW-> If you think about it, you could host the redirectors on your own server and then your clients can have port 80 totally closed. No reason why the redirector has to be on the same server as the target.
Love this idea – have set it up for OWA, but additional redirects won’t work cuz you can’t start 2 sites both on port 80.
Any workaround? I’m a bit of a newbie on IIS, but am not afraid to poke around. Lots of poking, but no joy so far.
cheers,
David
never mind. . .had to set IP to external value & not ‘all unassigned’. works like a charm for RWW and OWA – just waiting for A record to propogate for intranet!
Cheers,
David
Javier,
this sounds really cool, however I do have just 1 question – for the RWW redirect, what do I need my certificate to say to make it all right – as in my user types in
https://remote.mycompany.com and it redirects to https://www.mycompany.com/remote – do I now need two certs, one for each site, or just one – in which case, which one?
thanks for the good tips
David
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