This is really important for reducing traffic over the WAN. Please note the Cached Exchange Mode is enabled. The process has not changed much with Windows 2003.Īll that is left is to run Outlook 2003 E-mail Accounts Wizard. Look at Mark Fugatt's Article Securing Outlook Web Access using SSL for step-by-step instructions. So I guess it's major upgrading time for you if you really need this feature.įirst you would need to add a certificate authority to Windows 2003 Server and generate an SSL certificate for HTTP access. A common practice with Microsoft innovations, this feature is only available with the latest server and client applications: Outlook 2003, Windows XP SP1 (with a post SP1 fix) connected to Exchange 2003 installed on Windows 2003 Server. So, now supposedly all this is behind us, but this might not be so for quite some time. Some VPN clients would not work behind other corporate Firewalls, meaning bad news for outsourced employees and people involved in outsourced projects having to use the not so full features Outlook Web Access. Also, most companies would not want RPC exposed to the Internet and connecting over VPN with Outlook was usually a costly nightmare of slowness and lost packets. This has been a much requested feature since regular RPC/MAPI was sometimes very slow or just timed out on WAN connections. Exchange 2003 allows Outlook to connect using HTTPS and still receive all of the messaging features.
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