Microsoft Exchange 2010 Installation Step-By-Step Part 4 (Server Configuration–Continued)

Now that we have installed Exchange 2010, Configured the Organization and installed and configured the Certificate we can move on to configuring the rest of the Server section.

The first section ‘Mailbox’ refers to the local Mailbox Database location. Since we are installing a single standalone Exchange server we can leave this section as is and move on to ‘Client Access’.

The ‘Client Access’ pane has a number of tabs on it and we will go through each one to ensure that the configuration is correct in order to allow your mail clients to connect correctly.

Let’s start with Outlook Web App.

Right-click on ‘owa (Default Web Site) and then click on properties.

Under the General Tab note the location of your internal and external URL’s for Web App access. You will need to pass these onto your users once your Exchange goes into production. You will note that Exchange has already configured the internal and external paths as specified by the certificate which was installed previously. The rest of the window’s tabs can be left in their default state as they inherit most of these properties from the Organization Configuration we did in a previous article. Close the window.

With ‘Client Access’ still being highlighted you will note on the 'Right-Hand action pane a task which states ‘Enable Outlook Anywhere…’

Click on the link.

In the Text Box provided type the Exchange Server’s External host name. This should be the mail.<external domain> which we set to the primary of the Exchange Certificate we configured. Leave authentication as ‘Basic Authentication’ and tick ‘Allow secure channel (SSL) offloading. Then click ‘Enable’.

The wizard will complete with information stating that ‘Outlook Anywhere’ will be enabled in approximately 15 minutes.

The rest of the ‘Server Configuration’ section can be left in its default state as these are inherited from the Organization Configuration and since this is a standalone Exchange Installation the defaults of the organisation apply to the server.

Your Exchange installation is now complete!

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