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NimbostratusAPM - Citrix and OWA iapp question
I have recently used the following iApps to build out a remote access solution using APM and it works great. I do have a couple of questions about these iapps though.
f5.microsoft_exchange_owa_2...
Vinocalk,
The iApp templates are designed to cover the most common/requested deployment scenarios. The OWA 2007 APM portal deployment is one that was never popular enough to warrant an iApp.
There is a possibility that we would do this in the future, but it would most likely be a standalone iApp that would apply only to OWA 2010 and 2013.
I recommend chatting about this with your F5 sales engineer, so that they can promote your request to the iApp developers.
thanks
Mike
vinocalkMike many thanks for your answer. I guess I was wondering why Portal Access was not F5 best practice for deploying OWA. After reading up a bit more about Portal Access I guess it is maybe a bit overkill for most F5 \ OWA deployments as OWA is designed to face the internet so should be security hardened therefore negating the need for all the URL \ JavaScript rewriting? I guess also that Portal Access can help optimize OWA connectivity by using caching etc. but this is probably only really necessary in very busy traffic scenarios? Am I on the right track?- Portal Access means that client connections never get forwarded to the OWA servers; simple pre-authentication is enough for many users but some may want this extra security. I'm actually not sure what Portal Access provides as far as optimization...LTM's caching, compression, and tcp profiles do an excellent job of that.
