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jdewing
Cirrus
Feb 24, 2011RPC Client Access
I'm having an issue getting outlook client to work with RPC Client Access. I follow the steps from the F5 Deployment Guide "Microsoft Exchange 2010". Everything is working with OWA and Hub Transport, but just not with RPC Client Access. I tried so many different settings for VIP, no luck.
1. Created a DNS “A” record for outlook.xxxx.local
2. Created a Client Access Array and associate it with outlook.xxxx.local
3. Follow steps from the Deployment Guide to create health monitor, pool, profile and VIP
4. Created a new Outlook Profile and pointed to outlook.xxxx.local.
This is where I’m stuck.. I can’t get the outlook client to communicate with the CAS. When I created outlook profile, I enter outlook.xxxx.local for Microsoft Exchange Server, I get error “The name cannot be resolved. The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action”
However I could enter the CAS Server name “CAS01.xxxx.local” for Microsoft Exchange Server with no issue, but the correct way is to use the RPC Client Access name for load balancer.
Did anyone had a similar issue and able to get it resolve???
Thanks in the advance.
- Ken_107043
Nimbostratus
there are alot of moving pieces here. - Ken_107043
Nimbostratus
here's what my exch_rpc_virtual_tcp looks like - Ken_107043
Nimbostratus
here's what my exch_rpc_virtual_tcp looks like - Dayne_Miller_19Historic F5 AccountKen, after creating the client access array, did you associate your pre-existing database with it?
- jdewing
Cirrus
Ken, thanks for your response. - Ken_107043
Nimbostratus
Are you using SSL offloading or no? - jdewing
Cirrus
Yes, I'm doing SSL offloading and using forms-based authentication with "User name only" I happen to narrow down that HTTP profile is the possible cause. I created HTTP Profile based on the F5 Deployment Guide which doesn’t work. When I changed to the VIP to use the default http profile, it works with no issue. So that tells me that the setting somewhere in the Customized profile is causing the issue. So I disable/enable the setting back-n-forth to narrow down the setting that could cause the issue. It came down to the setting cause “keep accept Encoding”. Then I tried again couples of time to duplicate the issue and I couldn’t. So I can’t really verify if this setting is the main causes cuz everything is working for now on my computer.. If I go to a computer 2 it work, but with computer 3 it won’t work. - Ken_107043
Nimbostratus
exch_owa_http_wanopt profile? - jdewing
Cirrus
Yes.. with Parent Profile "http-wan-optimized-compression-caching" - Ken_107043
Nimbostratus
I haven't throughly tested everything so I'd hate to jump to any conclusion. I do have profile in place right now and when I get to testing I'll see if it causes any problems. I do think that we had a problem with a different profile, it was throwing errors in the logs so I pulled it out (can't remember which one off of the top of my head).
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