Publishing Outlook Web Access with SSL web access

  • From: "Steven Sporen" <sporens@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'[ISAserver.org Discussion List]'" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:28:48 +0200

Hi,
 
I've had a look through the documentation on the ISAServer.org regarding
this topic. We've got a strange situation - well not strange but I can't
get ISA working in this way.
 
o Internal bridge exchange with SSL to publish Outlook Web Access -
Installed the public SSL cert on this server.
o ISA Server using web publishing to publish https://xxx/exchange
through to the internal OWA.
o Unfortunately we use this certificate for other sites etc on the
public side, so I can't server publish port 443 directly through.
 
-Exchange 2000 SP3
-ISA SP1
 
The reason I had to install the certificate on the internal OWA server
was that I found, Microsoft in their wisdom tries to detect is this is
an SSL connection, if not it redirects to a non-ssl URL (And since it's
SSL up to the ISA server this failed)
 
First I thought I might get clever - maybe they were checking the port
number to work out if it's SSL or not, so I changed the Exchange server
to publish OWA on port 443 then push through a SSL->HTTP request
(terminating the SSL on the ISA server) - this didn't work, it still
tried via http://xxx:443/exchange. DUH! So I installed the certificate
on the Exchange server and configured ISA to map SSL->SSL.
 
Now when I connect to https://xxx/exchange I get the following error:
 
500 Internal Server Error - The target principal name is incorrect.
(-2146893022)
Internet Security and Acceleration Server
 
This got me wondering, was ISA in fact just routing through to the back
or was it passing through the /exchange part too. Turning on 
 
 
 
 

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