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OWA Section Home Page

If you have a specific machine for Outlook Web Access, you may want users to go to http://mail.domain.com instead of http://mail.domain.com/exchange/ . This is a simple change to the default web site on the machine that is hosting OWA. 

It is more effective when used with Exchange 2003/2007 and Forms Based Authentication, as the users get a web page immediately - and without any authentication prompts - providing a level of confirmation that they have hit the correct address.

1. Start IIS Manager
2. Right click on the "Default Web Site" and choose "Properties".
3. Click on the "Home Directory" tab.
4. Change the first option to "A redirection to a URL".
5. Enter "/exchange" in to the box (minus quotes)
6. Change the entry below to "A directory below URL entered".
7. Click Apply/OK.
   If you are prompted about changing child objects, click cancel so that nothing else is changed.
8. Close the IIS Manager.
9. Test.

Co-Existing with Outlook Mobile Access - Exchange 2003

If you want to do a similar trick with Outlook Mobile Access, then you will have to customise the forms based login page or modify the default.asp file in the root of the web site to detect and redirect depending on which device is accessing the site. For more information on making this change, see OWA - Redirect Pages.

Windows Server Update Services

If you have a dedicated web site for WSUS then this trick also works for that web site Simply change the /exchange for /wsusadmin. Users do not need to access the web site and it does not affect the operation of the service.

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The screenshot below shows a complete configuration.

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