Exchange 2003 - Outlook Mobile Access

[ajbritton]

Has anyone configured OMA on Exchange 2003 and got it to work with mobile clients coming in over the Internet? Further, have you used SSL with it?

Please tell me I don't need to set up a full Windows PKI or buy a ridiculously expensive certificate...

[Geoff]

Some PDAs/Phones will refuse to work with self signed certificates.

You can get a WAP browser for testing.

http://www.apachesoftware.com/download_kwpe.html

[ZeroHour]

http://www.instantssl.com/ for cheap certs and they are the biggest on the go (going by trusted CA status)
try there 30 day cert and see how you go

[ajbritton]

Geoff: How would I go about creating self-signed certificates without a Window s PKI. Oh, BTW, I got not *nix boxes either!

[Jake]

Funnily enough , I just finished setting up our Bursars Tytan phone/PDA thing so it would access our outlook web access server while she is down in the antipodes for 6 weeks. I created a ss certificate myself using a guide that I found by googling, sadly I didnt bother to bookmark it. Was pretty straightforward though and took less than an hour if I remember correctly

[Geoff]

Geoff: How would I go about creating self-signed certificates without a Window s PKI. Oh, BTW, I got not *nix boxes either!

There's a command line tool in the IIS6 Resource Kit to do it. Here's a guide:

http://www.messagingtalk.org/content/483.html

[ajbritton]

Thanks for the advice everyone.

[PiqueABoo]

When I did this the web server cert was the easy bit. The trickier bits were:

a) A clunky workaround for single Exchange server (no FE-BE) where you had to fiddle with the Exchange Web-folders via IISM.

b) Getting the cert's CA on a variety of gizmos running a variety of Windows Mobile version. Microsoft do have emulators for the last few versions which was very helpful.