OWA and RPC access with forms auth?   

Ok we want to use forms based auth in OWA because we have ISA 2004 and like 
the security features of it, but we also have users that want RPC enabled 
HTTP outlook access... which wants basic auth... is there any way to 
configure this to have both?

date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:24:35 -0400   author:   Brian Henry

Re: OWA and RPC access with forms auth?   

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:24:35 -0400, "Brian Henry" 
wrote:

>Ok we want to use forms based auth in OWA because we have ISA 2004 and like 
>the security features of it, but we also have users that want RPC enabled 
>HTTP outlook access... which wants basic auth... is there any way to 
>configure this to have both? 
>

If you are using ISA 2004 then you don't need to publish FBA on the
Exchange Server. ISA will do that for you. There are articles on
www.isaserver.org.
Also you can run FBA and RPC over HTTPS on the same server anyway. Out
of the box and with the two features activated you get the
functionality.

Is there something hidden here? Have you been doing some testing and
had some kind of a problem that you don't want to talk about just yet?

date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:35:16 +0100   author:   Mark Arnold [MVP]

Re: OWA and RPC access with forms auth?   

we've had problems getting it to work, and we actually had to edit the IIS 
metabase to force it to work.. the problem is we have SSL, and forms based 
auth turned on on the ISA 2004 side, because when it was on, on the Exchange 
side attachments wouldnt work at all! no mater what we did attachments would 
not download, so we turned it off on exchange and on on the ISA side in the 
Exchange web listener (set auth on the ISA listner to forms based auth) and 
then attachments worked, but now RPC wouldnt work, turned it to basic auth 
on the listener now RPC worked, but forms auth didnt work (gave a gray 
security dialog for user / pass instead of the outlook website) and 
attachments didnt work...



"Mark Arnold [MVP]"  wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:24:35 -0400, "Brian Henry" 
> wrote:
>
>>Ok we want to use forms based auth in OWA because we have ISA 2004 and 
>>like
>>the security features of it, but we also have users that want RPC enabled
>>HTTP outlook access... which wants basic auth... is there any way to
>>configure this to have both?
>>
>
> If you are using ISA 2004 then you don't need to publish FBA on the
> Exchange Server. ISA will do that for you. There are articles on
> www.isaserver.org.
> Also you can run FBA and RPC over HTTPS on the same server anyway. Out
> of the box and with the two features activated you get the
> functionality.
>
> Is there something hidden here? Have you been doing some testing and
> had some kind of a problem that you don't want to talk about just yet?
>

date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 08:16:14 -0400   author:   Brian Henry