Did you always want to know how to get your OWA to be http://mail.domain.com? Well, now you can. This is called IIS redirection (all Exchange versions supported). There are 2 major methods to achieve. Option 1 (article below) modifies IIS to do it, and Option 2 is a very short html file. I prefer option 2 (this is what I use for my clients).
1) SearchExchange article explaining the IIS redirection technique. They fail to mention when you enable this it asks if you want to change the configuration for all sub-folders. The answer is NO!
http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid43_gci1363286,00.html
2) Simple html code on your Exchange Server. How I deploy for all my clients.
- within the inetpub directory (default is C:\inetpub\wwwroot), open with notepad "iisstart.html" on your OWA server (front-end, Client Access, all-in-one, etc).
- replace the contents with the following code (blog doesn't allow html code, hence the screen shot below or download it):
- save file and you're done. This URL I used obviously requires an SSL cert, but if you don't (you should), you could make the URL http://mail.domain.com/owa or http://mail.domain.com/exchange depending on your Exchange version.
Enjoy,
-Ben
