I have a SBS 2003 running exchange 2003 sitting behinde a Sonicwall Tele 3 firewall and a static ip address. my exchange is working fine but i can't seem to get to my OWA (webmail) externally. I can use it behind my firewall but not outside my network.

I should be able to go to domainame.com/exchange and it should open up with a logon field. I have this option at my work on a sbs 2000.


Do i need to open up a port on my firewall..... Please help

I'd guess so, tell me more about your set up, does exchange come with built in webmail, or is this third party stuff? how does the 3rd party stuff work, is it a stand-alone http server, or a set of scripts (PHP, Perl, Python)?

It comes built in, it's VERY nice - looks exactly like Outlook 2003 - and it's ASP running under IIS. In a real exchange environment, the web interface is ideally run on a separate box from the exchange server for security and performance reasons.

Third party stuff is varied as can be. Stand-alone, PHP, PERL, ASP, IIS or apache - you name it, you can find it.

@ Illrigger: thanks for the info

@ winialsl: I guess then that you have IIS installed and just need to open port 80 to get access to the server.

If not then you will need to install IIS, configure a directory to run the scripts in then open port 80 to get access to the server.

If thats not how the setup goes (because Illrigger said its 'built in') then i'm sure you've got doc's to consult somewhere

SBS is a little funny, tho. It uses the default page as a kind of "mini-portal" that has links to the web remote desktop client, Outlook Web Access (exchange webmail) and some other stuff. It also runs in secure mode by default on an odd port.

I never messed with it enough to figure stuff out completely, but you can link directly to the OLWA page. Access the mini portal, r-click and copy the shortcut to the OLWA page, and paste that link into your browser. It will have a port number listed (bla-bla-bla.com:443/outlookweb or somesuch - the number where 443 is is what you want). Open THAT port on your firewall as well as port 80, and you should be able to link directly into OLWA.

Oh, BTW, I *highly* recommend using IE to access it. None of the other browsers work quite right.

Hope that helps!

Oh, and here's THE site to get info on exchange:

http://www.msexchange.org/

thanks for all the help guys. i will try them and let you know