Hi,

 

I'm in the process of setting up SBS 2003 std with OWA. Now owa works but when i want to access the public folders it opens a new windows were the left pane (where the folder hierachy resides) is empty. If go to owa from inside the corperate lan everything seems to work. Do i need to open extra ports on the firewall? I know only got 443 open which should be enough i think. Or should i change something in IIS?

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Regards,

PvL

How do you connect to OWA? Directly using http://fqdn/exchange or are you using RWW?

Regards

I'm accessing it through http://FQDN/exchange (sometimes i cheat and use http://ip/exchange). I've disabled access to RWW from the outside.

 

Regards,

PvL

Hi P,

 

Is SP1 for Exchange applied yet with the additional SBS fix?

There are some hotfixes applied during installation but i'm pretty sure that SP1 is not one of them. I'm guessing that it has something to do with rights in IIS. If i access the public folders from inside the corporate lan (using http://server/exchange) than it works. I think it's some sort of access list but i don't know where (i'm not such a iis guru )

 

Regards,

Peter

Hi Peter,

 

Than you have some patching to do. Start with WU for the critical ones, than 831464 which will solve your public folder issue, than SP1 for Exchange and the additional sbs hotfix. Check it out with MBSA from MS for other missing hotfixes. If you have ISA, you will need some fixes for that too. Check this out:

Frequently Asked Questions about Service Packs & patches:
http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=82

Hi Marina,

 

Thanks for the reply and sorry for the late response. I've patched the server like you described and i'm a happy chappy now!  Everything works perfectly. Got one small question left: With the exchange 2003 SP1 comes the Active Directory Connector. Is this installed on SBS? Must I install it?

 

Thanks again!

 

Regards,

PvL

Hi P,

 

No, don't install it. In fact, I am not even aware of it. Make sure you apply the 843539 as well after SP1 for Exchange.

From the documentation which comes with it does some sort of replication between the Active Directory and the exchange directory. If i don't have it know i probably don't need it . Also installed the patch you mentioned. I think i'm totally up to date now. Although the MBSA is mentioning SP4 for SQL2000 but i prefer to wait a little bit and test this one first on my test server.

 

Regards,

Peter