Free/Busy & OOF not working
Hi Folks,
Environement:
Exchange 07 SP3 update2(just updated)
Server 08 R2
Outlook 07 Clients (setup initially using the autodiscover service)
I have an issue where users cannot see free/busy info nor use OOF feature, this was working fine before. Free/busy will in fact show up under OWA.
running test-outlookwebservices cmdlet came back fine telling me autodiscover was tested successfully
running outlook using the /cleanfreebusy did not work
creating a new outlook profile did not work
I enabled logging in Outlook, tested the free/busy and checked the olkdisc.log for outlook and all it says is resource manager terminated
any other advice, and thanks in advance
January 18th, 2011 6:41pm
From a user’s computer: ctrl+right-click the outlook icon on the system tray.
Then choose test email autoconfiguration. Hit test.
Verify the urls returned for these services are accessible from the cleint’s pc.
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January 18th, 2011 6:46pm
yes everything comes back accessible
January 18th, 2011 6:58pm
Does this occur for existing mailboxes only, or new as well?
Can you try with a new Outlook profile to rule this out?
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January 18th, 2011 11:11pm
This occurs for existing accounts, re-creating the users' profile does not help either.
When i create a new user and setup a mailbox it keeps prompting for credentials ?
One thing to note as well: When i created the new profile it used autodiscover to correctly identify the user and configure the new
mail account..
January 19th, 2011 1:07am
When i create a new user and setup a mailbox it keeps prompting for credentials ?
Perhaps this is the key. Did you change your Virtual Directory authentication settings?
forget about the new mailbox for a moment. on an affected workstation, open IE and browse to
https://server.domain.local/EWS/Exchange.asmx are you able to login? you should see an XML file like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <wsdl:definitions xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:tns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
targetNamespace="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types">
- <wsdl:types>
- <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:import namespace="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" schemaLocation="messages.xsd" />
</xs:schema>
</wsdl:types>
- <wsdl:message name="UploadItemsSoapIn">
<wsdl:part name="request" element="tns:UploadItems" />
blah blah blah
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January 19th, 2011 1:26am
Please also paste the results of: Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory | fl id*, *auth*
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January 19th, 2011 1:27am
Yes I can login and see the xml data
I havent changed anything with authentication unless updates would have done something
Identity : ExchangeSVR\EWS (Default Web Site)
InternalAuthenticationMethods : {Basic, Ntlm, WindowsIntegrated}
ExternalAuthenticationMethods : {Basic, Ntlm, WindowsIntegrated}
BasicAuthentication : True
DigestAuthentication : False
WindowsAuthentication : True
nMicrosoft.Windows.MMC----------------------------------------
thanks Mike for troubleshooting with me
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January 19th, 2011 1:48am
Ok, traced the issue back to DNS. Our dns guy changed owa and autodiscover entries to cname's instead of leaving them as
A records. this causes issues with ssl and autodiscover, etc. so reverted back to a records flushed cache's and all ok
January 21st, 2011 1:23am
Hi,
Thanks for your sharing.
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January 25th, 2011 10:08am