"Hidden" server name & Autodiscovery

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Zxarr Posted: 06-27-2007 3:24 PM

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Greetings...

I am currently setting up an Exchange 2007 Org.  We have a resource domain that users outside the head office will be unable to resolve via DNS.  This is a security matter, it is unlikely to change, so I have set up a DNS entry for our exchange Mailbox and CAS server.  The CAS server is called 'owa.mycompany.com', the mailbox is called 'mailbox.mycompany.com'.  Now, behind the scenes these servers are called 'nb-ws-sv-0016.res.local' and 'nb-ws-sv-0015.res.local' respecively.

 
When autodiscovery looks for the server name while setting up outlook, it always comes up with 'nb-ws-sv-0015.res.local', which will NOT be resolvable from 90% of our network.  I'm either blind, or it's just not obvious, but how do I change the autodiscover service to hand out mailbox.mycompany.com instead?

Anyone else have to go through this?

THanks!! 

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Joel Stidley replied on 06-27-2007 9:12 PM

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Thanks for the post!

Have you set the ExternalURL on each of the webservices?

You will need to use Set-OWAVirtualDirectory, Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory, Set-OABVirtualDirectory, and Set-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory for each of the CAS boxes that you have. 

That should fix it, if not let us know.