Monday, October 17, 2005

Urlscan Exchange 2003 Windows 2003 SP1

I finally fixed the problem I encountered with OWA and urlscan after installling Windows 2003 SP1. Basically I was getting page cannot be found errors. I found that owalogon.asp was being denied by the urlscan template that I copied from an MS KB article. Here are the KB articles that I would recommend to anyone installing URLScan:

How to configure the urlscan tool
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=326444

URLScan tool may cause problems in Outlook Web Access
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=325965

DO use the urlscan template listed here
Fine-tunning and known issues when you use the Urlscan utility in an Exchange 2003 environment
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823175


**Do NOT** use the urlscan template listed in this KB - This is what broke OWA with Windows 2003 SP1
IIS lockdown and URLScan configurations in an Exchange environment
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309508
In the authors defense, the template is for Exchange 2000. It worked fine with Exchange 2003 until I installed Windows 2003 SP1.