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Brendan_Hogan_9
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusTrying to implement Exchange 2010
When testing Outlook Anywhere as well as Active Sync (using using www dot testexchangeconnectivity dot com/) site I receive the following error: "Initial Anonymous HTTP(s) request did not fail but Anonymous is not a supported Authentication Method for this scenario http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd439395(exchg.80).aspx"
I found on Technet and Experts Exchange the identical error message and both cases said it was resolved by changing iRules but provided no further details.
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Ken_107043I'm not sure if you figured this out or not, but when you click options in OWA it sends you to the ECP virtual directory.
I'm still working my way through all of this stuff but basically this is where the internal/external URL's come into play.
We're planning on sending all clients through the LTM's so everything will be considered external. You have to go through and set all of the external URL's within Exchange 2010, so for example:
owa
internal: https://server1.mydomain.com/owa
external: https://owa.mydomain.com (LTM virtual server)
ecp
internal: https://server1.mydomain.com/owa
external: https://ecp.mydomain.com (LTM virtual server)
you get the idea I hope.
We initially had everything setup for SSL offloading and decided that we'd be more secure going without so we tried to disable SSL offloading and ran into all sorts of problems. I'm back to doing SSL offloading and I think I'm coming down the home stretch. I've got activesync, owa, outlookanywhere and autodiscover working.
If I can help anyone out let me know.
I'm mainly interested in finding some better health monitors.
Also, the deployment manual is riddled with problems. The default health monitor is garbage, It looks like it was written for IIS 6.0 and there is an Irule or two in there that doesn't work.
hoolioCirrostratus
Hi Ken,
Thanks for the reply here and the other thread. I think the team that writes and tests the deployment guides does a great job for a majority of scenarios. But they're not able to test every version and deployment scenario.
I would encourage you to open a case with F5 Support to give feedback on your experience with the guides--particularly if you're stuck on something that still isn't working. Support should be able to help troubleshoot any outstanding problems and pass your feedback onto the docs group.
Aaron- Ken_107043Aaron,
I've already contacted a support on two problems I found in the deployment guide...At least one of the issues was not a matter of my environment, there was an error in the syntax of an Irule that anyone could have taken the rule published and put it into an LTM and found that it wouldnt' work.
