We are running Portal 3.0 with SP3 and HP1. HP1 was supposed to provide
functionality to bring OWA 2000 throught the rewriter, however this does not
work. We have selected the HTTP basic authentication and can get to OWA but
the Inbox does not display and a "Whitespace not allowed at this location"
error pops up. Anyone have any ideas?
TIA
> We have iPS 3.0 SP4 HP1 and OWA still not working
> with IE browsers any one know how to make it work
> with IE or know patch# that will fix it for Internet Explorer
OWA should have worked pretty fine with iPS30SP4. HP1 is known to break OWA. HP2 should again fix things.
Well, we finally got the SP4 HP2 Production patch installed which was clearly identified as fixing the OWA 2000 problem.No such luck.
We finally did get this patch to solve the first hurdle, which was to properly rewrite behavior:url so the special OWA control for IE would load.
But still - no inbox displays and no calendar functionality. A complete and total failure.
Is anyone successfully using OWA 2000 (Exchange 2000 SP2) with Portal Server V3 and IE?
Thanks,
Gary
I am having smiliar problems with OWA 2000 and Portal Server 3 SP3a. The OWA 2000 login screen displays, I enter my login credentials, then immediately receive a "page cannot be displayed" error.
I noticed that this problem occurs with Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6. However, it does not occur with Netscape 4.7 and Mozilla 1.2b browsers. These two browsers work fine via the Portal.
My first guess is that OWA 2000 is using ActiveX for IE browsers, and Java for Netscape and Mozilla browsers.
Any insights or comments are appreciated.
We have succesfully integrated both owa for exchange 5.5 and 2000 with PS3SP3 (HP none).
There was one time that installing the 'multimedia' pack (that is available on the ms website) fixed some small problems for us. I believe there is a link to it in the options section of OWA.
It is however very unfortunate to have this client dependency and therefor support/maintanance issues...
With each Portal Server Service Pack or hotpatch, Sun tries to fix the rewriter to support OWA 2000 using the IE browser. But with each Microsoft Exchange 2000 service pack, the gap widens, and sadly to say, there is no usable IE support for OWA 2000 with the latest Exchange service packs (2 or 3).
Yes, Netscape works for the most part since OWA will use a dumbed-down html interface instead of the "rich" client.
Also, you have to connect to the Front-end Protocol server using BASIC Authentication, and can't connect to backend Exchange servers because of no support for NTLM.
