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bit embarrassed about this but i discovered where the fault lay. I had checked, rechecked, reconfigured ad nauseum and it wasn't until i ran a port scan from an external network that i discovered our isp had blocked port 80. so anyone else having problems, remember to check the simple things first!

Our school also is using a Ruckus setup. The issue i've had concerns guest wireless access and our proxy server. When explaining to a user what I am changing their internet options and that they will need to disable the proxy settings when finished, they usually end up saying forget it. Has anyone else figured out a solution for Ruckus ZD to either bypass the proxy or provide proxy detection for guests like Duke5A has?

wasn't able to locate the bindings you mention. the database server (with IIS running) is on server 2k3. don't know if that makes a difference.

Appear to be encountering an issue some where along the line. I'm able to ping student.domain.com and i can see it resolves to my servers static IP so I'm thinking the A record is fine. But trying to open student.domain.com fails. I'm suspicious its either the firewall forwarding rule or something with the DNS. the firewall should be forwarding to database.internal.domain on path /student/* (the SMS installed it to this folder within the inetpub root). Do I actually need to change anything on the DNS records or would the problem be solely in the forwarding rule?

Thanks for the info. I'm still a little unsure if I'm completing this job correctly. I've added an A record using Cpanel's simple DNS editor that points student.mywebsite.com to 1.2.3.4. I've then set an ISA rule to listen for requests for student.mywebsite.com and forward them to database.internal.domain on port 80. Now I'm not sure if I need to correct anything in my internal DNS records but I've added a static Cname alias for student.internal.domain to forward to database.internal.domain. but this seems a bit odd to me as they are internal names. So I'm trying to get a domain controller that has the DNS records, an ISA server to listen and allow the request, and a database server that actually has IIS and the site needing to be published to work together so students/parents can see their data. Will let you know how i get on, cheers!

anyone?

My boss has decided that our current LMS isn't providing enough data to the parents so he would like us to use our SMS' built-in web portal which has heaps of data for parents and students. The only problem is I'm not entirely sure the steps I need to take to publish an internal site (http://databaseserver/studentportal, for example) and make that accessable to external networks. We have an ISA server setup through which all our traffic flows and our website is hosted off-site by a third party (with a Cpanel admin console on our server). I'm vaguely certain I need to add/create a CName to point to our static IP and have a web listener on the ISA to redirect to the database server that hosts the portal. We currently already have our OWA setup and redirects to the exchange server fine, which I would like to avoid ruining if possible. Does anyone have any resources or tips for doing this? I'm not sure what I might be doing wrong but so far I can't seem to publish to external networks. 1. create cname pointing to 192.168.1.1 (just using an example.) so when student's parent goes to http://mywebsite.com/studentportal they are redirected to the database server with IIS and the website that pulls data from the SMS. 2. create ISA rule to listen on port 80 for requests and forward to http://databaseserver/studentportal internally. 3. ??? 4. Profit. Always appreciate the help.

Thanks for the replies, everyone. I've discovered the issue that wasn't allowing the machines to logon wirelessly and have corrected it. The technician that setup our radius server, for whatever reason, didn't have the school computers OU added. Once that was done, the network connections are now made during startup instead of login and everything is sunshine and roses. I had assumed that when the wireless network was installed that it would have been obvious to add the school computers so I thought it was a more complicated issue. Sorry for that.

I believe my first post just timed out. can happen when you keep having to get up and run around campus to fix minor issues. packets are dropped until after login. then it will actually make the connection and pull the redirected desktopdir as well as a few updates but the user is still logged into a temp profile that has full access. gpreport shows the gp infrastructure failed due to the network not present/started. so again it looks like it isn't creating the network connection to our wireless until after it's needed. I've read others solved this by using the manufacturer's wireless client but we have different brands at our school so that isn't an elegant solution.

Hi All, Second attempt to post this, sorry if any double up. Hope someone can help with this issue, i've been banging my head against the wall on this problem. My school has purchased an initial lot of 28 HP mini 5103 netbooks for our classrooms. We've decided to also start deploying Windows7 with these and a the new staff laptops. I've spent the past few weeks setting up the GPO's to prevent unauthorized access to things like the system drive and other network machines, etc. etc. Now when i test it with a student account everything looks great and golden rays beam from behind the machine. Until i remove the network cable and try to log on using the same accounts wirelessly. Then it all junks out on me and the user is logged in with a temp profile with no restrictions. I've tried pinging it at the login screen and receive no replies. it will only make the connection wirelessly after a user logs in. I'm assuming this is the main issue now and my last hurdle. Is there anyway to configure the wireless connection to start pre-logon? I've set the usual computer gpo's to wait for network, attempted setting a roaming profile for my test account, and other attempts that have become a blur of gpupdate and restarts. basic info if needed: Server 2k8 R2 DC Zonedirector 1000 w/ Ruckus AP's HP Mini 5103's running Win 7 Ent. x86 Once this is done, i'm going to get them out to the classrooms. In which time I'm sure I'll have to tackle the random user account docs being renamed to 'Documents' from 'Username'. thats a mystery as well right now cause it doesn't occur every time. many thanks for any and all help!