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Re: How do folks firewall MS Exchange?
From: "Bill Pennington" <bpennington () lucidnetworks com>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:32:51 -0700
One thing you might want to look at is Outlook Web Access (OWA). It allows access to Exchange via a web interface (duh). I played around with it a bit but that was a while ago so my memory is a bit fuzzy. I believe you can install the Web access piece on the Exchange server or a separate box. I think the problem you might be running into is that Exchange use RPC for a lot of its communication. I am a little brain dead right now (been writing Openview docs all day....yeech) but I think the OWA piece would work well for you. If I recall correctly you can use SSL to encrypt the traffic if you so desire. You can get all the info you want off of M$ web site. This solution sidesteps the issue somewhat but I think the end result will work well. If you find another approach I would be interested in hearing about it. Bill Pennington Consultant Lucid NetworX ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Schlitt <schlitt () world std com> To: <firewall-wizards () nfr net> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 12:37 PM Subject: How do folks firewall MS Exchange?
How do folks work access to an MS Exchange server through a firewall? We are under pressure to install MS Exchange in our mixed unix/NT environment and allow access from outside our local network. I checked the archives and didn't find anything that helped me. Currently we limit outside access from the Internet to ssh to a unix host. Port forwarding makes it possible to do all of the things that have been required in the past. But now the folks on the sales side of the company want to have MS Exchange installed so they can use its calendaring and other functions. We have attempted to use the port forwarding to make exchange work and we have also tried Lotus Notes. No luck. Maybe we have missed something. This would be our preferred approach. So we are now looking for a firewall solution to this problem. Have any of you our there encountered this problem. How did you solve it? Thanks. /dan -- Dan Schlitt schlitt () world std com
Current thread:
- How do folks firewall MS Exchange? Dan Schlitt (Oct 12)
- Re: How do folks firewall MS Exchange? Chris Cappuccio (Oct 13)
- Re: How do folks firewall MS Exchange? Bill Pennington (Oct 13)
- Re: How do folks firewall MS Exchange? Mikael Olsson (Oct 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- re: How do folks firewall MS Exchange? Carson, Joe (Oct 12)
- Re: How do folks firewall MS Exchange? Mikael Olsson (Oct 16)
- RE: How do folks firewall MS Exchange? Desai, Ashish (Oct 13)
- re: How do folks firewall MS Exchange? David Goldsmith (Oct 13)
- RE: How do folks firewall MS Exchange? Noller, Gregory (Oct 16)