[isalist] Re: Supporting RPC Outlook Clients
- From: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:26:19 -0700
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Why not just create a new zone for your .org in AD and skip the whole hosts
thing??
On 4/14/06 9:22 AM, "Rob Moore" <RMoore@xxxxxxxx> spoketh to all:
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> Getting which to work? Here's the URL (posted in my original question)
> for getting the RPC over HTTP to work:
> http://www.isaserver.org/articles/2004securerpc.html. It does work.
>
> My question is about editing the Hosts file via a script, so I don't
> have to instruct my users how to do it themselves (or where to put a
> pre-modified one). What I'd like to be able to do is give them a script
> and say, "Here, double-click this" and have the script make the
> appropriate addition to the Hosts file.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
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> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Andrew English
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 12:26 PM
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> Subject: [isalist] Re: Supporting RPC Outlook Clients
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> Uhm,
>
> With all that said and done how about posting the URL of the tutorial
> that Tom wrote (I think) on getting it to work?
>
> Andrew
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Jim Harrison
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 10:10 AM
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> Subject: [isalist] Re: Supporting RPC Outlook Clients
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> Oops.
> Read it inside-out - I understood it as RPC/HTTP - you're actually using
> MAPI.
>
> The problem is that the OL clients are going to look for ".local"
> because that's the domain where the Exch server lives. As such, you
> have to give them this hosts file setting.
> This is one of the main reasons Tom (and I) dislike the ".local" domain
> construct.
>
> You can use a logon script to modify the hosts file.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Rob Moore
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 6:51 AM
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> Subject: [isalist] Re: Supporting RPC Outlook Clients
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> I'm not finding anything along those lines in the article by Tom. Where
> can I find that?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Jim Harrison
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 9:32 AM
> To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isalist] Re: Supporting RPC Outlook Clients
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> What did you enter in the "Use this URL..." field?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Rob Moore
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 5:55 AM
> To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isalist] Supporting RPC Outlook Clients
>
> Using: ISA 2004 Standard, Server 2003, Outlook 2003.
>
> I've finally gotten around to implementing RPC over HTTP for my Outlook
> clients. We have a split DNS, with our internal DNS names ending in
> ".local".
>
> I've gotten an external client to connect, but only if I add the
> Exchange server's external IP address and internal name to the Hosts
> file on the external PC (as described in Tom's article
> http://www.isaserver.org/articles/2004securerpc.html
> <http://www.isaserver.org/articles/2004securerpc.html> ). When I
> configure the client, I put in "mail.afsc.org"--the public name of our
> Exchange server--as the server name. When it resolves, it resolves to
> "delta.afsc.local"--the internal name of our Exchange server. This
> resolution works, even without the addition to the Hosts file. However,
> without the addition to the Hosts file, the client can't actually
> connect to "delta.afsc.local".
>
> So, these are my questions:
> 1. Is there a way around using the Hosts file?
> 2. If not, can someone tell me how to script the necessary info into the
> Hosts file? (I'm not much of a scripter, and I'd like to avoid giving my
> fairly non-technical users instructions for editing it themselves.)
>
> Alternatively, I suppose I could create the necessary Hosts file
> and give that to them. But there are a couple of problems with that:
> first, our non-techie users would likely put it in the wrong place;
> second, I've found that our anti-spyware program also uses the Hosts
> file, and I don't want to mess that up.
>
> I can't use AD to make the changes to the Hosts file because
> many of the computers that need the change are personal computers that
> are not members of our domain.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
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