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Having a bit of a problem with my greenfield installation of Exchange Server 2013. Environment: Windows Server 2012, 4 Exchange Servers (collocated CAS/MBX roles), Outlook 2010.

HLB is arriving next week, until then I have configured DNS RR for both autodiscover.company.com and mail.company.com.

If starting outlook on a domain joined pc, autodiscover and outlook anywhere is working perfect. If starting outlook on a non-domain joined pc and enter my email address it does an autodiscover lookup using A record (autodiscover.company.com) and it resolves the guid. but I cannot logon to the server. If I do it manually I cannt enter the proxyname (mail.company.com) I have to enter a exchangeservernamefqdn, then it works.

1) So domainjoined pc works perfekt, but not non-domain joined (never gets pass the basic screen).

2) Test-OutlookWebServices = Autodiscover: Outlook Provider failure (if using -debug I cannot see any errors).

3) How come if using netstat on a client computer I can see the connection towards the server hosting the active mailboxdatabase. Should'nt I see the proxy (mail.company.com?)

4) Shall InternalNLBBypassUrl be serverfqdn, proxy fqdn or $null? When first installed it was empty, but after a reset of ews vdir it got the serverfqdn field configured!

Fredrik Tornell
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  • Does anybody know if InternalNLBBypass URL already be used in Exchange 2013? (EWS proxying for example). –  Jun 13 '13 at 09:32

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I don't have an answer as to what's wrong, but you might try using the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer: https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/

I found it very helpful when I was debugging autodiscover failures with 2010.

scottm32768
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  • Hi scott, we have not yet deployed UAG for external access and the new feature that we can download and run on a local computer is telling us that everything is OK. – Fredrik Tornell Mar 18 '13 at 20:16
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I have had such problem two times... In my case the problem was in authentication type which was configured by default as Negotiate for external clients, so I've changed it to Basic and the problem has gone.

For Exchange 2010:

Get-OutlookAnywhere | Set-OutlookAnywhere -ClientAuthenticationMethod "Basic"

For Exchange 2013:

Get-OutlookAnywhere | Set-OutlookAnywhere -ExternalClientAuthenticationMethod "Basic"
ThaViper
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Is mail.company.com your Client Access Server for each of the Mailbox Servers?

If you run:

Get-MailboxDatabase |ft name, rpcclientaccessserver

You'll get a list of the Client Access Servers for each Mailbox Database.

It's common to point all the client access to a single namespace and load balance on it. This command will set all the Mailbox servers to use CAS.company.com as the client access server:

Get-MailboxDatabase | Set-MailboxDatabase -RpcClientAccessServer "CAS.company.com"
Azraellion
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  • Hi Azraellin, that RpcClientAccessServer attribut has been depricated and belongs to the CASArray funkction within Exchange 2010. In Exchange Server 2013 it is still there but the attribute cannot be changed. – Fredrik Tornell Mar 18 '13 at 20:15