Comments on: What do you think is the hardest thing about Exchange Server

By: Exchange Genie

Exchange Genie — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:32:19 +0000

This sounds like you are attempting to connect from home… one potential issue is related to the certificate on the site if you are doing rcp.https. How are you attempting to connect via mapi through the vpn or ?

By: Choppol

Choppol — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:39:52 +0000

E2k7. I personally think it is hardware hog. Exhange was initially design for pure email/calendar app etc and now it has UM, outlook anywhere. Personally, working with Exchange since 5.5 and that is what Exchange should be like. Basic enough and allow admins to easily manage the servers.

The positive side of E2k7 and 10 is DR better than previous version of Exhange.

By: bergm57

bergm57 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:29:02 +0000

That was the recommendation on his site but I actually did not rem the loopback, all I did was add the server ip and the netbios and fqdn on one line and it was fine with it.

192.168.xx.xx ziggy ziggy.brunXXXkc.net

Thanks again for your site!

By: Exchange Genie

Exchange Genie — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:08:25 +0000

Let me see what I can find out about that issue, thanks for passing the information on. Its interesting that you had to rem out the loop back address and add entries for the server.

By: bergm57

bergm57 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:53:29 +0000

I re-read your 2008 article thanks for that information. It didn’t fix this problem in my situation. I do have it working now but I am wondering why I had to do it this way? I hope you don’t mind but I’m going to step through it as I figured it out so other nuebes like me can fix this.
First I needed to undo the changes I had attempted with IIS security on the RPC directories:

I turned off the Outlook Anywhere through the EMC and then uninstalled the RPC/HTTP in through the control panel on the server. I restarted IIS and the virtual app directories RPC and RPCProxy were gone. I then re-installed RPC/HTTP and re-enabled Outlook Anywere in the EMC. That got me back to basics.

I found the https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/Default.aspx Romote Connectivity Analyzer and used it to resolve my required DNS entries and finally it got down to this error, “RPC Server Unavailable Error was Thrown by the RPC Runtime”. The resolution offered was to install SP2 for Exchange 2007 so I did that and installed the rollup ver 2. Still the same result. Then I noticed a guy had made a comment on Microsoft technet saying he had made a simple entry in the hosts file on the server and it began working. I made the same entry on mine and now all it good. Here is his link: http://www.gurkubondi.net/blog/2009/06/outlook-anywhere-rpc_s_server_unavailable-error-0x6ba-was-thrown-by-the-rpc-runtime/ Apparently, this is a problem only when you have all the Exchange roles running on one server, which is my config.

By: bergm57

bergm57 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:05:33 +0000

Yes I am running 2008 server. I read that article but I came away with the impression it applied only to terminal server. I will give it a second read. One related question. In my hunt to resolve this problem I tried the Anywhere activation through my EMS again and it would not run the command because the RPC site was all ready there and assigned. I removed the RPC virtual app thinking the application would recreate it. Now I don’t have it. Can I just add it back as a Virtual App and point it to the correct directory or do I need to do an uninstall?

By: Exchange Genie

Exchange Genie — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:08:22 +0000

what OS are you running Windows 2008?
Have you looked at this http://www.exchange-genie.com/2009/02/continous-prompting-in-outlook-anywhere/

By: bergm57

bergm57 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:23:57 +0000

I purchased a UCC from godaddy. My setup is a single forest domain, with Exch 2007 on one box. My internal domain is companynamekc.net and ext is companyname.us, I was not sure of the multiple domains to use so the best I could determine was to do the cert as follows:
common name: mail.companyname.us
and the alternative names:
autodiscover.companynamekc.net
mail.companynamekc.net
owa.companynamekc.net
ziggy.companynamekc.net
I registered the cert into Exchange through the EMS and Anywhere is enabled. OWA works great for everyone but the Outlook clients are getting the repeated login prompt!

By: Exchange Genie

Exchange Genie — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:28:18 +0000

What is you setup like, there was an old bug related to continous prompting. Are you using a private cert or purchased from a provider like verisign?

By: MarkB

MarkB — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:50:43 +0000

Just found your site and thanks for doing it. I have just implemented Exhange 2007 SP 1 and I really appreciate your overview on the spam filtering. I have cut down the amount dramatically. However, I am pulling out what is left of my hair over the remote Outlook clients. I have them all on Office 2007 but when they try to connect to the server with the “ANYWHERE” they keep getting prompted over and over again for their login credentials and it never connects. I really wish that there was a step by step explanation that was not in MS “clear-as-mud-speak”.