RPC Over HTTP

[emunn]

Got this question from a caller today, wondering if anyone might be able to help.

They purchased our Exchange '07 course and the only thing not covered was setting up Outlook '03 users to connect RPC over HTTP. He was able to set up the Outlook '07 users just fine, but can't get the '03 ones to work. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Biggles77]

All the RPC over HTTPS Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 I have setup have been exactly the same. When they open Outlook 2003, hold down the CTRL key and right click the Outlook icon and select Connection Status in the System tray and see how it is connected. TCP or HTTP.

Do they have a real Certificate or an Internal generated one?
Does RPC work internally?
Have they used the RPC diag tool to check the connection?
They can check out this site for some real good info. He is an Exchange MVP and Petri Moderator (and held the highest score on Experts Exchange until he took a break). http://www.amset.info/exchange/rpc-http-diag.asp

[DShack]

With Outlook 2003, you have the manually set things up. Here are the key settings:

The proxy server URL should be your server's public Fully Qualified Domain name, the same one that matches your certificate common name: mail.domain.com

You don't have to check the "Mutually authenticate" checkbox, but if you do, the principle name field should read something like this: msstd:mail.domain.com

If you want to force use of Outlook Anywhere over any sort of network, you can check both of those boxes.

Make sure your system is set to use Basic Authentication, not NTLM.

The setup is going to be identical to setting up Outlook 2003 for RPC-over-HTTPS, so the following tutorial's steps for configuring Outlook would be the same as with Exchange 2007:
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Outlook_2003_Connect_Exchange_2003.html

Dave Shackelford

[DShack]

With Outlook 2003, you have to manually set things up. Here are the key settings:

The proxy server URL should be your server's public Fully Qualified Domain name, the same one that matches your certificate common name: mail.domain.com

You don't have to check the "Mutually authenticate" checkbox, but if you do, the principle name field should read something like this: msstd:mail.domain.com

If you want to force use of Outlook Anywhere over any sort of network, you can check both of those boxes.

Make sure your system is set to use Basic Authentication, not NTLM.

The setup is going to be identical to setting up Outlook 2003 for RPC-over-HTTPS, so the following tutorial's steps for configuring Outlook would be the same as with Exchange 2007:
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Outlook_2003_Connect_Exchange_2003.html

Dave Shackelford