RE: How do folks firewall MS Exchange?

["C.M. Wong" <wongcm () vone com my>]

You might want to check out Outlook web access. Althought it runs on rpc, I
think it's the best bet you have. But I believe, you lose some of the
functions with OWA. Not sure whether you can still do calendering...

Rgrds,
Wong.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-firewall-wizards () lists nfr net
> [mailto:owner-firewall-wizards () lists nfr net]On Behalf Of Dan Schlitt
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 9:35 PM
> To: firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Subject: Re: How do folks firewall MS Exchange?
>
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>
> Back in October I asked this question. Thanks to everyone who provided
> helpful information. We did get a solution using ssh. This messages is
> delayed because we wanted to test the solution.
>
> Although the port forawding on ssh works, MS evidently puts the hostname
> information somewhere and that makes things fail.
>
> We are using Notes which does not have this problem.
>
> /dan
>
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>
> Dan Schlitt
> schlitt () world std com
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>
> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Dan Schlitt wrote:
>
>
> How do folks work access to an MS Exchange server through a firewall?
>
> We are under pressure to install MS Exchange in our mixed unix/NT
> environment and allow access from outside our local network.
>
> I checked the archives and didn't find anything that helped me.
>
> Currently we limit outside access from the Internet to ssh to a unix host.
> Port forwarding makes it possible to do all of the things that have been
> required in the past. But now the folks on the sales side of the company
> want to have MS Exchange installed so they can use its calendaring and
> other functions.
>
> We have attempted to use the port forwarding to make exchange work and we
> have also tried Lotus Notes. No luck. Maybe we have missed something. This
> would be our preferred approach.
>
> So we are now looking for a firewall solution to this problem. Have any of
> you our there encountered this problem. How did you solve it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> /dan
>
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>
> Dan Schlitt
> schlitt () world std com