OWA (2003) no longer working. Help!

[Jon Doe]

Everytime I go to http://owaserver/exchange I get an error that says:

The page cannot be found.
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed,
or is temporarily unavailable.

What happened was that, I was researching an issue where the spell check was
working for some users, but not others. A KB article said to check
"integrated authentication", select all when it prompts about propagation,
and then go back in and uncheck it.

Ever since then, OWA stopped working. I figured out though that, if I do
http://owaserver/exchange/username it does work. It also doesn't matter
whether I'm on the local network or from the internet.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Lee Derbyshire [MVP]]

Post by Jon Doe
The page cannot be found.
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name
changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
What happened was that, I was researching an issue where the spell check
was working for some users, but not others. A KB article said to check
"integrated authentication", select all when it prompts about propagation,
and then go back in and uncheck it.
Ever since then, OWA stopped working. I figured out though that, if I do
http://owaserver/exchange/username it does work. It also doesn't matter
whether I'm on the local network or from the internet.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Do you remember which article you read? It would help to know at which
level you applied those permissions. If you did it on the Exchange VDir
(which would be the best place to set OWA permissions), then you wouldn't
have been prompted about the subfolders, so it must have been somewhere
else. If you did it at the Default Web Site level (which sounds more
likely), then to allow the permissions to propagate down is completely
wrong.

Right now, I would at least check that the ExchWeb VDir has Anonymous Access
enabled.

Lee.

[Jon Doe]

Ok, I got it going again. Also, to anyone else who may have this problem...
I reset the virtual directories.

I used method 1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883380

Post by Lee Derbyshire [MVP]

Post by Jon Doe
The page cannot be found.
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name
changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
What happened was that, I was researching an issue where the spell check
was working for some users, but not others. A KB article said to check
"integrated authentication", select all when it prompts about
propagation, and then go back in and uncheck it.
Ever since then, OWA stopped working. I figured out though that, if I do
http://owaserver/exchange/username it does work. It also doesn't matter
whether I'm on the local network or from the internet.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Do you remember which article you read? It would help to know at which
level you applied those permissions. If you did it on the Exchange VDir
(which would be the best place to set OWA permissions), then you wouldn't
have been prompted about the subfolders, so it must have been somewhere
else. If you did it at the Default Web Site level (which sounds more
likely), then to allow the permissions to propagate down is completely
wrong.
Right now, I would at least check that the ExchWeb VDir has Anonymous
Access enabled.
Lee.
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