Clever Way to Redirect OWA Users Who Can’t Remember to Include /Exchange in the Path

Gijs on the ISAserver.org Web boards came up with a clever and effective method to redirect users who enter https://owa.domain.com to https://owa.domain.com/exchange

What you need to do is the following:

1. Create a Deny Web Publishing Rule for the public name owa.domain.com. After you finish the rule, go into the properties of the rule and configure a redirect to https://owa.domain.com/exchange
2. Create an Allow Web Publishing Rules for owa.domain.com using the Mail Server or Exchange Web Services publishing wizard (depending on the version of the ISA firewall that you’re using). Put this rule right under the Deny rule you created.

Pretty easy and it works a treat!

HTH,

Tom

Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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