Re: FN-FORUM: IIS Forward Request to Another Server

date posted 8th February 2008 13:10

On Friday 08 February 2008 14:33:23 Colin Shipton wrote:

> The actual problem is that the client has Microsoft CRM on one server and
> Exchange on another server and has enabled OWA (Outlook Web Access), both
> are obviously available internally through their relevant hosts i.e.
> http://outlook and http://crm, however the client wants both of these
> available externally

Stop right there... that's the goal.

This:

> from http://outlook.domain.com and
> http://crm.domain.com on port 80.

is a possible implementation.

Assuming that the idea is to give staff, not customers, access to these
servers, I would say that installing a VPN is about a ten squillion times
better idea than trusting Microsoft with port 80 on your office network.