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Nov 29 2008   4:54PM GMT

Outlook Web Access (OWA) on Apache in DMZ ;)



Posted by: Michael Khanin
Outlook Web Access, Exchange, RPC over HTTP/S, Outlook Web Access (OWA) on Apache, OWA on Apache

Using Apache 2 with Outlook Web Access (OWA) it’s very easy. This solution is even working when Apache installed on Windows XP and this solution can save a lot of money :), not necessary to buy Windows Server, additional Exchange Server licence or ISA Server. First, we need to enable some useful modules:

proxy
headers

Now, we need to edit / create a VirtualHost section (or use Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts. conf, remember to make following changes inside httpd-vhosts. conf ):

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80>
ServerName exmail.admininfo.ca
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/exchange
RedirectMatch ^/(index.html?)$ https://exmail.admininfo.ca/exchange/
RedirectMatch ^/exchange$ https://exmail.admininfo.ca/exchange/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:443>
# This secures the server from being used as a third party
# proxy server
ProxyRequests Off

# Allows the proxying of a SSL connection
SSLProxyEngine On
ProxyVia On

DocumentRoot /home/user/mail_proxy/html/
RequestHeader set Front-End-Https “On”

ServerName mail

# Set up SSL to work with this host
SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache/webmail-proxy/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache/webmail-proxy/server.key

SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile /etc/apache/webmail-proxy/certnew.cer

ProxyPass /exchange/ https://mail-internal/exchange/
ProxyPassReverse /exchange/ https://mail-internal/exchange/

ProxyPass /exchweb/ https://mail-internal/exchweb/
ProxyPassReverse /exchweb/ https://mail-internal/exchweb/

ProxyPass /public/ https://mail-internal/public/
ProxyPassReverse /public/ https://mail-internal/public/

ProxyPreserveHost On
</VirtualHost>

NOTE: If you are using Apache on Windows, remember to make changes accordingly.

Jun 28 2008   3:06PM GMT

Outlook Web Access New Mail Notification for Exchange 2007, Soon



Posted by: Michael Khanin
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Outlook Web Access, Exchange, OWA, Outlook Web Access New Mail Notification, OWANotify

Dean, developer of well know “Outlook Web Access New Mail Notification” for Exchange 2003, recently announced that he started work on an Exchange 2007 version of OWANotify.