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Can’t get into OWA
Posted: 11:21 am September 22nd, 2005	Post a comment Uncategorized

This same subject has appeared enough times that it frankly puzzles me why I have not written an article on it yet. So here is a quickie:

If you applied patch 888619 you may find it difficult to log into your Outlook Web Access. However, you remembered the good old NTLM troubleshooting days and got in via DOMAIN\login just fine. The above breaks only SBS without SP1 (and if thats you… SMACK.. patch you fools) but here is how you set the default domain in OWA so you can login without putting in your domain every time:

Start > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Server (IIS) Manager
Expand your server > Web Sites > Default Web Site and select properties for the Exchange folder.
Directory Security (tab) and click on Edit under the Authentication and Access Control.

Something like the icon on the right shows up. Select the default domain, select the default realm (both will be your domain name) hit OK, Apply and you’re done. No more OWNCORP\vlad, just Vlad.

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3 Comments

Chuck | September 22nd, 2005 at 12:44 pm

Why are you using basic authentication? Not very secure passing passwords around in clear text.

jayzzz | September 22nd, 2005 at 4:01 pm

I had the same question. Why plain text?

Vlad | September 22nd, 2005 at 4:25 pm

Hey,

You are right, you don’t want text going over the Internet unencrypted. However, the property page you are looking at is for domain authentication and it is for the Virtual site on IIS — on a domain that is protected by the 128bit SSL key.

So even though its plain text, you’re still encrypting the session and connection so it doesn’t matter. As a matter of fact, the bug that Microsoft identified and Susan Bradley provided a workaround for only applies to SBS (and specifically SBS 2003 without SP1) — SBS if you’ve installed it enough times automatically generates an SSL certificate for the default web site which is where the Exchange OWA sits.

Hope that clears it up. Its encrypted folks, no need to stress.

-Vlad

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