Category: Microsoft

Using OWA in Microsoft Exchange 2003

To access email without using any email client software, we can connect via the web to our Exchange server. 2003, We open a browser, for example Internet Explorer and open the following address: HTTP://Bujarra01/Exchange, It will ask us for a username and password to access the mailbox, if we want to see this from outside the company, the port would have to be mapped 80 From our router to the Exchange server. I have performed a procedure to encrypt traffic, instead of going through the port 80 what is the NOT secure web, Go for the port 443 What is the SSL port, We should open: https://Bujarra01/Exchange; all of this is explained in this procedure: OWA secure over SSL. OWA stands for Outlook Web Access, that is, Outlook Web Access.

Settings in Microsoft Outlook 2003

Para configurar basta con hacerlo desde cualquier cliente de correo, se puede configurar con el protocolo POP3, IMAP4, desde un explorador mediante OWA, yo lo hare con el cliente MS Outlook 2003, el correo SIEMPRE permanecera en el servidor, es lo bueno de Exchange, que los usuarios se pueden pensar que el buzon esta en sus PC’s y no es así. To set it up, abrimos MS Outlook y seguimos el asistente, si tenemos problemas se podría configurar también desde “Beginning” > “Panel de Control” > “Mail”.

Moving Microsoft Exchange Databases 2003

To help you understand how Exchange databases work, We have two databases in principle, one would be the private DB and the other the public DB, There are two files: priv1.edb and pub1.edb respectively. These files grow as users' mailboxes grow, are by default in: “C:Program FilesExchsrvrMDBDATA“, What I usually do is take them out of the system partition and put them in the data partition which is really the one I'm interested in in case one day I have to format a server. To do this,: “Beginning” > “All Programs” > “Microsoft Exchange” > “System Administrator”

Configure a Microsoft Exchange server 2003 as a Front-End Server

The interesting thing in an organization is to have secure access from the outside, That's what DMZs are used for, and logically we're not going to put an Exchange server in it with its mailboxes, since users do not need to access from the LAN to the DMZ. What you do is create one or more servers that act as a Front-End in the DMZ that have Exchange, but only for external connections, SMTP and HTTP/HTTPS traffic would enter so that users from the internet can view mail by OWA. In this step, we will create a Front-End server and see how it would be configured. It is assumed that in the LAN we will already have our(s) server(is) with MS Exchange mailboxes accessed from the LAN with MS Outlook-type mail clients.